On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:44 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
I am trying to get the x86_64 isos of CentOS-5.2. I wish to use bittorrent. The last time that I did this I required the bittorent package from Dag's repository. I have configured /etc/yum.repos.d/DagWieers.repo thus:
[dag] name=Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux #Also see URL http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 # This repo often does not respond in a timely fashion so turned off # by default. Use yum --enablerepo=dag to use. enabled=0 gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt includepkgs=bittorrent* perl* # priority requires yum-priorities. Must also be enabled in /etc/yum.conf # and /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf. priority=20
I'm 386, but that shouldn't be all that different. Is it possible that bittorrent is only available as a 386 package?
$ yum list installed *torrent* Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, : fedorakmod, kernel-module, priorities, tsflags, versionlock Installed Packages bittorrent.noarch 4.4.0-1.el5.rf installed bittorrent-gui.noarch 4.4.0-1.el5.rf installed libtorrent.i386 0.12.0-1.el5.rf installed rtorrent.i386 0.8.0-1.el5.rf installed
The above makes me think (being essentially ignorant about all this rpm stuff) that you might need to over-ride your architecture? And I got then from rpmforge, not Dag's place so I don't know if it's there or not.
I'm not sure how current that dag repo is. I know that Dag has been involved in trying to get rpmforge going, some kind of involvement with other repos, etc.
FWIW, I've this rpmforge setup.
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo # Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag # URL: http://rpmforge.net/ [rpmforge] name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag #baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge #mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge enabled = 1 protect = 0 gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag gpgcheck = 1 priority=10 # includepkgs=rtorrent.i386 libtorrent.i386 libsigc++20.i386 nvidia-x11-drv
Note that the "protect=0" is needed for priorities to work.
Then I run yum thus:
# yum --enablerepo=dag whatprovides bittorent
But yum cannot find bittorrent.
I only use the rtorrent, which has the DHT feature, so I really can't offer any more than what I have above.
Sorry.
HTH