Other Yum Repositories For RHEL-5 Family

Some Other Yum Repositories For RHEL/CentOS 5

My favorite is RPMforge

CentOS users have access to a couple of disabled repos, don't forget to try --enablerepo=

• extras
• contrib

There is also EPEL

And kernel modules and stuff are frequently available in ELrepo

Beware that RPMforge and EPEL are not generally compatible, so be careful to not mix and match. In practice you want to use one over the other pretty much exclusively and not use the other -- for example I only use EPEL for syslog-ng right now, and that only on central hosts where syslog-ng is desired.

Setup Notes

I don't trust Priorities. Back in the bad old days I hosed a couple of systems due either to Priorities mis-fires or misconfigurations on my part. (Possibly a stale, old bias at this point.)

I install the RPM for the repo, then alter the /etc/yum.repos.d/$REPO.repo file so that each enable line is

enable = 0