On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:04 PM, <cpolish at surewest.net> wrote:> On 2016-05-17 12:09, jd1008 wrote: >> Has anybody enabled this repo? >> I understand that it can really mess up updates and upgrades >> as the dependencies are rather different. > > I've had the CentOSPlus repository enabled for CentOS6 for more > than a year with no problems. I don't recall reading anything on > this mailing list or IRC suggesting that enabling plus caused > issues with updates. > > The CentOS wiki warns "Enabling this repository makes CentOS > different from upstream. You should understand the implications > of this prior to enabling CentOSPlus". Essentially this is a > reminder that the CentOS community has no appetite for supporting > slightly non-standard configurations (a very reasonable stance). > > If you need the extra hardware driver modules available with > Plus this shouldn't stop you from running a Plus kernel. > Just be prepared to reproduce any problems using a stock > kernel (which you can still select at boot) if you need to > resolve an OS issue with help from others. > > The only vhanged packages in the CentOS Plus 6 repo are the > kernel (kernel, kernel-abi-whitelist, kernel-doc, > kernel-firmware, kernel-headers, kernel-devel), the kernel > performance utilities (perf, python-perf), and postfix. > > For detailed differences of the "Plus" kernel see: > https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus?action=show&redirect=Repositories%2FCentOSPlus#head-a94637ae716c01023f633e8b5fb840f555f6d378 >Why not leave all the extra repos disabled, say sed -i -e 's/^enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and manually enable it when you need to get a package from said repo: yum install -y libmcrypt --enablerepo=epel> HTH, HAND, > -- > Charles > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 2016-05-17 15:51, Mauricio Tavares wrote:> Why not leave all the extra repos disabled, say > > sed -i -e 's/^enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo > > and manually enable it when you need to get a package from said repo: > > yum install -y libmcrypt --enablerepo=epelHello Mauricio, I understand. For systems with a few packages from Epel this is my favored technique. Epel has a lot more packages that overlap or interact with base repo packages, if I'm not mistaken. But for my CentOSPlus repository use case, I leave the repo enabled in the config file; forgetting to re-enable it could leave these systems without neccessary drivers. As the repository contents is desired _in total_ over the base packages, there's no down side for this use. -- Charles
On 17 May 2016 20:52, "Mauricio Tavares" <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote:> > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:04 PM, <cpolish at surewest.net> wrote: > > On 2016-05-17 12:09, jd1008 wrote: > >> Has anybody enabled this repo? > >> I understand that it can really mess up updates and upgrades > >> as the dependencies are rather different. > > > > I've had the CentOSPlus repository enabled for CentOS6 for more > > than a year with no problems. I don't recall reading anything on > > this mailing list or IRC suggesting that enabling plus caused > > issues with updates. > > > > The CentOS wiki warns "Enabling this repository makes CentOS > > different from upstream. You should understand the implications > > of this prior to enabling CentOSPlus". Essentially this is a > > reminder that the CentOS community has no appetite for supporting > > slightly non-standard configurations (a very reasonable stance). > > > > If you need the extra hardware driver modules available with > > Plus this shouldn't stop you from running a Plus kernel. > > Just be prepared to reproduce any problems using a stock > > kernel (which you can still select at boot) if you need to > > resolve an OS issue with help from others. > > > > The only vhanged packages in the CentOS Plus 6 repo are the > > kernel (kernel, kernel-abi-whitelist, kernel-doc, > > kernel-firmware, kernel-headers, kernel-devel), the kernel > > performance utilities (perf, python-perf), and postfix. > > > > For detailed differences of the "Plus" kernel see: > >https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus?action=show&redirect=Repositories%2FCentOSPlus#head-a94637ae716c01023f633e8b5fb840f555f6d378> > > Why not leave all the extra repos disabled, say > > sed -i -e 's/^enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo > > and manually enable it when you need to get a package from said repo: > > yum install -y libmcrypt --enablerepo=epel >Doing this means you won't get notified of updates in that repo. This is not a good idea.
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:32 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:> On 17 May 2016 20:52, "Mauricio Tavares" <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:04 PM, <cpolish at surewest.net> wrote: >> > On 2016-05-17 12:09, jd1008 wrote: >> >> Has anybody enabled this repo? >> >> I understand that it can really mess up updates and upgrades >> >> as the dependencies are rather different. >> > >> > I've had the CentOSPlus repository enabled for CentOS6 for more >> > than a year with no problems. I don't recall reading anything on >> > this mailing list or IRC suggesting that enabling plus caused >> > issues with updates. >> > >> > The CentOS wiki warns "Enabling this repository makes CentOS >> > different from upstream. You should understand the implications >> > of this prior to enabling CentOSPlus". Essentially this is a >> > reminder that the CentOS community has no appetite for supporting >> > slightly non-standard configurations (a very reasonable stance). >> > >> > If you need the extra hardware driver modules available with >> > Plus this shouldn't stop you from running a Plus kernel. >> > Just be prepared to reproduce any problems using a stock >> > kernel (which you can still select at boot) if you need to >> > resolve an OS issue with help from others. >> > >> > The only vhanged packages in the CentOS Plus 6 repo are the >> > kernel (kernel, kernel-abi-whitelist, kernel-doc, >> > kernel-firmware, kernel-headers, kernel-devel), the kernel >> > performance utilities (perf, python-perf), and postfix. >> > >> > For detailed differences of the "Plus" kernel see: >> > > https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus?action=show&redirect=Repositories%2FCentOSPlus#head-a94637ae716c01023f633e8b5fb840f555f6d378 >> > >> Why not leave all the extra repos disabled, say >> >> sed -i -e 's/^enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo >> >> and manually enable it when you need to get a package from said repo: >> >> yum install -y libmcrypt --enablerepo=epel >> > > Doing this means you won't get notified of updates in that repo. This is > not a good idea.I see your point since you can setup repo priorities> _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos