CentOS - is it safe to add these repositories?

[djcronos]

Hi all,

After thinking I would like to add other packages (such as pine) to my DA installation, I came across this article:

http://www.osresources.com/11_6_en.html

That talks about adding extra repositories. Making sure I leave the following code and just adding to my /etc/yum.conf:

[main]
 cachedir=/var/cache/yum
 debuglevel=2
 logfile=/var/log/yum.log
 pkgpolicy=newest
 distroverpkg=centos-release
 tolerant=1
 exactarch=1
 retries=20
 obsoletes=1
 gpgcheck=1
 
 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
 # in /etc/yum.repos.d
 exclude=apache* httpd* mod_* mysql* MySQL* da_* *ftp* exim* sendmail* php* named*

Do you think I would have any problems if I were to add the above URL's repositories?

Thanks in advance.

 

[nobaloney]

As long as your exclude line is right you shouldn't have to worry about breaking DA.

Whether or not you'll break CentOS? I don't know, because I don't know anything about those repositories. You can google them trying to find out their reputations.

Jeff

 

[gbjbaanb]

One of the better repositories is Dag Wieers, which is being merged with a couple of other ones - google his name and you'll get the repo. I also recommend putting it in a separate file in your yum.repos directory instead of modifying the main yum.conf