>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf >Of Les Mikesell >Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 5:53 PM >To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Backuppc-updates on CentOS > >All repositories are hard to use with other repositories. Yum doesn't >pay attention to repo tags, so all they do is help point out problems >after the fact. I think it was a dumb decision for epel to not use tags >but it is worse that yum doesn't track where it got things. For packages >you haven't installed yet, 'yum info packagename' will show the >repository location(s). > >As an example of things that go wrong, on one machine I have subversion >and viewvc from rpmforge (to get a version that is not ancient), but >epel's build number for viewvc is higher and the rpmforge/epel versions >land in different places and are incompatible. So, with my usual >practice of leaving epel enabled during updates, I pick up epel's >newer-numbered package which overwrites some of the rpmforge version and >keeps some, leaving it very broken. But fortunately it's a standalone >package and not to hard to fix by removing the one you don't want and >re-installing with the right combination of enablerepo= and disablerepo= >on the yum command line. When this happens to things with a lot of >dependencies it is a real mess. I think I get the general gist of it. Thanks all who put me on the right path! -- /Sorin
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