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 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 > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com