On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:08:22PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
On the other hand, if the EPEL package is updated before CentOS gets
the
security update, the CentOS users can use --skip-broken to just skip the
EPEL update they can't yet load, and RHEL users can load all their
updates. Once CentOS gets the update, they'll get the EPEL update as
well. I think that's a better situation.
This only works if the package with a incompatible update in EPEL is in
the base or core group, i.e. always installed. Otherwise you would block
installing the package at all from EPEL for CentOS users.
E.g. foo-1 is in EPEL and is updated to foo-2, requiring bar-2 from RHEL
which is not in CentOS. Then fresh installs of CentOS won't be able to
install package foo from EPEL, because yum would try to install foo-2
which fails.
Regards
Till