[CentOS] yum, dag and xawtv

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Tue May 9 12:36:02 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:30 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:21 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 15:29 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> > > See http://wiki.centos.org/centoswiki/Repositories/RPMForge for step by 
> > > step setup procedure.
> > > 
> > > Feedback is welcome.
> > > 
> > > John.
> > > 
> > > <snip>
> > 
> > I found this ambiguous because I was not sure at this point to what "the
> > dag or dries" referred.
> 
> Darn! I should be less ambiguous too? I assume, after some
> contemplation, that "user" in the URL is to be replaced by "dag" or
> "dries". I believe that it should not require contemplation to deduce
> this. Is it just me? Maybe.
> 
> Anyway, if the URL's "user" is replaced by "<user>" and then say "...
> replace <user> with "dag" or "dries" ..." I think my shortcoming is
> addressed.

And for my final reply to myself...

I actually follow the link and discover the "user" in the URL is literal
and the "dag" or "dries" refers to choices at that web site.

So I think that the phrasing should mention that choices of "dag" or
dries" will be found there and you can choose ...

> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > 
> >   rpmforge
> >   Download and install the rpmforge-release package. You can find
> >   download links here
> >   http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/rpmforge-release/ . You can use the
> >   dag or dries, they both contain the same files, or just download one
> >   of these: 
> > 
> >   Select the correct package depending on your arch. If you are unsure
> >   uname -i? 
> > 
> >       * i386 http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-
> >         release-0.2-2.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm 
> >         
> >       * x86_64 http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-
> >         release-0.2-2.2.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm
> > _______________________________________________________________________
> > 
> ><snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill
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