[elrepo] Using Elrepo and Epel together?

[Mike Hanby]

Thanks Phil, that verifies my thoughts as well.  Looking forward to  
kmod'ing my driver installs :-)

On Apr 13, 2010, at 10:29, "Phil Perry" <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> Mike Hanby wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> We currently use EPEL on all of our EL5 systems and I'd like to  
>> start using ELRepo as well to use the Kmod drivers.
>>
>> Is it generally considered safe to mix packages between these two  
>> repositories? Looking through the list of available packages it  
>> appears to be safe, just figured I'd ask since Google didn't reveal  
>> anything.
>>
>> I plan to test it, obviously, but it's always good to get other  
>> opinions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Generally, yes it is safe to use ELRepo with other repositories.
>
> Obviously you are aware of the risks of mixing repos. I'm not overly
> familiar with the packages in EPEL that may conflict, but from a very
> quick look through that repository I only see overlap on a couple
> wireless firmware packages.
>
> Besides our kmod packaged drivers, we also ship firmware for wireless
> network drivers and also the odd package required to support our  
> kmods,
> like an updated lm_sensors package to support some hwmon drivers (e.g,
> coretemp, it87 etc) and some user space tools like reiserfs-utils to
> accompany kmod-reiserfs. We provide these for repo closure and  
> otherwise
> would encourage where ever possible all non-kmod packages to be  
> directed
> to another 3rd party repo such as rpmforge or EPEL. Hopefully this in
> itself makes ELRepo safe(r) to mix with other repositories.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Phil
>
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