Safely update CentOS 6.2 with yum groupinstall?

[ericovk]

The hosting company setup the dedicated server I use with CentOS 6.2 minimal install and DirectAdmin. I would like to update CentOS from minimal to basic server with

$yum groupinstall Webserver

I can see that there are some packages excluded in yum.conf

exclude=apache* httpd* mod_* mysql* MySQL* da_* *ftp* exim* sendmail* php* bind-chroot*

Are these packages excluded by DA to safely run yum groupinstall webserver (or yum update) without malfunctioning CentOS or DA?
In other words, does anyone know if I can safely run "yum groupinstall" without bugging the DA installation?

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

Why you wanna do that? Any specific reason for?

Those packages list is added from DA to prevent double-installation of same packages, cause DA install them from source.

Still my question is alive.. what reason for do that? If you just need some specific packages, just install them manually, i think that groupinstall will just do that... and.. i think that may result on errors (without install anything) cause cant install pre-requites like for example http server.

Regards

 

[nobaloney]

I don't recall anymore (it's been a while) whether it was I or someone else who recommended the exclude line. It hasn't been revisited in a long time, and in fact, if you've done your DirectAdmin install correction properly you shouldn't have any RPMs installed for any of the services DirectAdmin manages.

So it's possible there are some things left out of the exclude line which should be there in order for you to safely use the groupinstall.

For this reason II highly recommend you do NOT run it; you could break your DirectAdmin installaton, and as SeLLeRoNe points out, it's never a good idea to isntall anything you don't specifically require.

Jeff