On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 09:01 -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
This is related to the problem at hand how?
The OP has a problem resulting from mixing standard and 3rd party repos, and has noticed some obvious issues.
No, he doesn't. His yum hangs.
Rather than trying to figure out what you have and how to fix it, it may be easier to start over an build a new system from scratch.
This isn't Windows.
True. But figuring out which packages came from which repo, can be difficult.
Sure, but that is not what this problem is about.
There was a hotly debated repotag battle that could have mitigated the problem. The epel folks were strongly opposed.
What does that have to do with the problem at hand?
The problem becomes really nasty, when package xyz from repo A, is incompatible with package xyz from repo B.
What does that have to do with the problem at hand?
You can probably get the 3rd party repos to play nicer with one another by using yum-priorities.
This is related to the problem at hand how?
The OP was using packages from the standard repos, epel, and a couple other repos I never heard of for a reason that he did not share with us. yum-priorities can be used to control which packages are installed from which libraries.
And yet his problem is that yum hangs. This is related to the above how?
But since you insist.
Here's the wiki page on repositiories.
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
I didn't insist. I just wanted to know what your mail had to do with the problem at hand.
Ralph