packages for RHEL/CentOS

[James Mcphee]

I add dag's repo's for my RHEL and CentOS servers as well.  Redhat is just
too conservative for much of what I need to do.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:17 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > moin moin,
> >
> > are RHEL and CentOS really dependent on dag's repo?
> >
> > It seems that the packages I want ( clusterssh and molly-guard in this
> > instance ) are not available via the normal repos. I even enabled the
> > extra CentOS repos ( centosplus and contrib ).
> >
> > It seems that every time I hear about a packaging issue for RHEL and
> > CentOS the answer I get is to enable dag and do an update.
> >
> > It seems strange to have to enable an external repo.
> ----
> yeah but dag's repo is a really, really good repo and you can trust it.
>
> I implement it on all my servers and I only have to watch out for
> MailScanner installed perl rpm's because Dag will want to update them
> (which presents problems with updating things because of the quirky
> nature of MailScanner).
>
> But some things like subversion, RH/CentOS has something like 1.4.x and
> dag has 1.6.6...
>
> # rpm -q subversion
> subversion-1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf
>
> really, really helpful
>
> Craig
>
>
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