On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
Most repositories will have a 'name-release.rpm' where name is the name of the repository. This will install the entry under /etc/yum/repos.d and set up the gpg key for the rpms. If you have a URL to the repo release rpm, yum can install for you with: yum install URL
Thank you. That is likely to be useful.
However, note that your current problem may be related to something you've pulled from a 3rd party repository so you should avoid blindly repeating the process. I'd install/update the package list from the
My system had been running for a while without my adding anything new. My expectation is that something glitched and changed something in a manner that had gdb waiting for something that will never happen. I'll never know. I'm not willing to put in another week of effort out of a probably vain hope of discovery.
One change I will make is that I will install and use priorities sooner.
base repositories first, then add EPEL and others with a policy of not overwriting base packages and make sure everything works before installing anything from repos that may overwrite any base packages. I normally keep any in the latter category set as 'enabled = 0' in the repo file and use --enablerepo= on the yum command line when I want something from them.