Is mixing yum repos ok?

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:00:59AM -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> Lloyd Hayes 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?
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >I'm not an expert, but I do know this one.
> >
> >You need to check with the repository. An example would be that 
> >downloads from Fedora.US can not be mixed with FreshRPMs. This 
> >information is posted on their websites, along with the repositories 
> >that they can be mixed with. These 2 repositories place files required 
> >files in different directories.
> >
> >
> 
> I have had issues in the past between atrpms and other repositories so 
> I don't use atrpms anymore.

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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