EPEL packages. Trouble ahead?

Virtualmin
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At some point, I enabled the EPEL repo to install a specific package but forgot to disable it afterwards. I realized I ended up with a few packages from EPEL.

yum list installed | grep epel GeoIP.x86_64 1.4.8-1.el6 @epel ack.noarch 1.96-1.el6 @epel awstats.noarch 7.0-2.el6 @epel epel-release.noarch 6-7 installed inotify-tools.x86_64 3.14-1.el6 @epel libmcrypt.x86_64 2.5.8-9.el6 @epel mod_evasive.x86_64 1.10.1-10.el6 @epel ncftp.x86_64 2:3.2.4-1.el6 @epel perl-Authen-PAM.x86_64 0.16-8.el6 @epel perl-File-Next.noarch 1.06-2.el6 @epel php-mcrypt.x86_64 5.3.3-1.el6 @epel proftpd.x86_64 1.3.3g-1.el6 @epel

Two questions:

  1. I’ve installed yum protectbase. Is this recommended for a virtualmin server?

  2. Could these packages sourced from EPEL become a problem? For example, will proftpd only update from EPEL since it came from EPEL? Do I need to do anything? I rather fix things now than run have an emergency later…

CentOS 6.3
Webmin: 1.590
Virtualmin: 3.93.gpl GPL

Thanks

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Howdy,

EPEL is the most compatible of the third party repos… in fact, a lot of the Virtualmin packages are based on EPEL packages. So I wouldn’t be too worried about having enabled that.

That said, I also tend to recommend only pulling in packages you need from third party repos, so I might recommend not pulling in any more than already were unless you need them.

-Eric

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Eric

Thank you for the clear answer, as usual!