CentOS yum repository

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:41 -0800, Mark Nienberg wrote:
> I'm preparing to install MailScanner on a fresh CentOS 5.1 x86_64 machine. I think 
> I'll give the experimental yum repo a try.  Is it recommended to use the 
> yum-priorities plugin and give higher priority (lower numbers) to the Centos-Base 
> repos to prevent packages from rpmforge from overwriting the ones that are part of 
> the base distribution?  Would this, for example, prevent the recent problems some had 
> with perl-MailTools?
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No

Here's the deal as I understand it...

If you install MailScanner, it installs a number of perl packages
including perl-Time-HiRes perl-MailTools etc.

If you add rpmforge/dag repo, it sees that those packages and happily
updates them. This is a good thing.

I don't think priorities would help for perl-MailTools because it wasn't
installed from a repo.

I think that you would benefit from newer packages from rpmforge such as
his spamassassin.

At present, perhaps it is best to just exclude perl-MailTools from
rpmforge/dag until this is all worked out.

Craig