Revision as of 11:06, 3 February 2010

Additional CentOS repositories

Before to add any other repitory, do setup yum-priorities

 yum -y install ''yum-priorities''
 

and setup priorities on each repo defined under `/etc/yum.repos.d` folder, by adding the following line into the repo section:

 priority=N
 

Where N is the number of priority, the higher preference is 1 and the lower is 99.

Recomended values

• base, addons, updates, extras : priority=1
• centosplus, contrib : priority=2
• others : priority=3

Kernels by Linville

Link: [[1]] Kernels for testing and experimentation, useful for new features, including wireless cards.

RPMFusion

Link: [[2]]

Is a merge of [[3]], [[4]] and [[5]] repositories.

RPMforge

Link: [[6]]

Is a merge of [[7]], [[8]] and others.

ELRepo

Link: [[9]]

Provides hardware support based on kernel module packages.