RHEL/CentOS Repository clues

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:34 -0500, vodhner at cox.net wrote:
> This is a request for cultural enlightenment.
> 
> At work, I am doing some development on CentOS.  I
> chose that because it is close to Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux (RHEL), and RHEL is what we use on all our
> production Linux boxes.  Also, I did not want to be
> out on the bleeding edge since this is being targeted
> at production.
> 
> I have tried to use CentOS repositories, but often
> have not found the item I was looking for.  So I have
> pulled in a few other repos, in a somewhat disorganized
> manner.  I have CentOS-Base, dag and MOKs.
> 
> PHP came in at 4.3.9-3, and I can't find a php-mysql
> that will build against it.  (I was just instructed
> to look into --nodeps, --force and -e which might
> solve that problem.)  But really, for security reasons
> etc., I should be using php5, right?  And with this
> repo list, "yum install postgresql" came up empty.
> 
> I'm obviously not "connected" yet.
> 
> So, could someone please tutor me on the methods for
> setting up the repo lists so that all the major
> mainstream packages will be available in the
> RHEL/CentOS type environment?  Does it make sense to
> add Fedora repos as a last resort?  How do I arrange
> that the less stable choices will be used only after
> trying the more stable?
> 
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yum install php-mysql

what is wrong with that?

Craig