Is mixing yum repos ok?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Feb 28 02:36:34 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 22:34 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> How safe/dangerous is it to mix repos? I recently added the kde-redhat 
> to my yum config. Now I'm seeing updates for kde and Qt in the 
> kde-redhat repo, is it safe to apply them?
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probably depends upon which repos and which tools and user's
capabilities for fixing things if they go awry

I might recommend smartpm...

yum --enablerepo-dag install smart smart-gui smart-update

it supposedly has abilities to handle/suggest fixes for cross-repo
conflicts

Craig




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