Re: Cuckoo repositories

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Jim Smith wrote:

> How many of you need to use unofficial repositories for RHEL and
> which one's are they?
>
> Can you state whether they are RHEL -compatible  or Cuckoo repos -
> break your system.

I've used centos to get advanced packages, such as PHP5.  There aren't a 
lot of extension packages there, but they are designed for 
compatibility and seem well-tested.

I've occasionally rebuild Fedora packages, but you need to be a bit 
careful there.

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