Hi Thanks for explanations ! > >>Giving the unablity of yum to setup repository preference > > > In fact there are ways to have yum do what you want, at least newer > yum versions which allow plugins. Right, as Troy mentioned in this thread the yum protectbase plugin shall do there ... [there is still a small BUT there: if somebody wants to use yumex ... that one disables ALL yum plugins ... just 'discovered it ...] > >>and at the same time importance of strict RHEL compatibility at >>which many of Scientific Linux users aim ... > > > Oh, ATrpms is strict RHEL4 compatible, I can guarantee that, including > the packages being replaced. :) Ooops, lack of precision after 2 weeks laziness , sorry, Of course it is, what I'm (again potentially ;-)) afraid of is that: sbdy builds a package depending on libfoo.Y where libfoo.Y comes from ATrpms (while original RHEL provides libfoo.X) .. such package will not be compatible with plain RHEL anymore .. [actually similar situation happened to us in the past when I've rebuilt some RHEL srpms for SL while having updated - for XFS - libattr/libacl on my built system .. resulted in update problems for users ..] > Potentially, but several years of ATrpms and even some more before > ATrpms have shown that the typical issues are to be expected > elsewhere. On the contrary, fixes in rpm, glibc and even openssh had > been propagated in 3rd party repos before the vendor had time to fix > them (or never did like for rpm). > > Perhaps that's to be expected. Usually the packages that are replaced > are already of higher maturity, so fixing or extending them invites > less trouble than creating new packages from scratch. I personally have no problem with that (and fully agree that some problems really SHALL be fixed): but it would be nice to make it clear to all repository users that the repository contains packages replacing vendor ones not only add-ons. I believe that users think that aditional repositories are just that: additional packages - If I'm not mistaken ATrpms is the only one for RHEL/FC4 which provides more then just add-ons Just my 2 (euro)cents ;-) Cheers Jarek __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/FIO/LA _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _