On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Rick Graves wrote:

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Please change $releasever manually by '3', and everything should work.

That seems to have fixed accessing your repository.

I only typed

yum list j2re

and now it is downloading lots of headers.

I stopped it by pressing Ctrl-c many times fast.

I think I am up to date with CentOS 3.3. There are lots of entries in yum.log dated September 21st.

That's yum, it will start downloading all the headers of the packages that are new (in your case about 1200) and scares the shit out of users by displaying all that :) I understand your reaction, the default behaviour should be less verbose. (apt is not better in a lot of those regards either)

What if I only want to access the java packages from your repository, and everything else from a yum mirror?

Well, maybe downloading them manually would be te easiest in this case. You understand that I cannot make a repository for each package :)

If you're concerned about the few core packages that are replaced, there is a Yum patch in TaoLinux that allows to protect the base system by not replace Red Hat core packages by third party ones. I'm only doing that for tools like lftp, rsync and a few others. (Tools that have been drastically improved since the RHEL3 release and most people want to use anyway).

But of course that is more a personal liking and especially if you have paid for Red Hat support that may not be what you want. Still since it can be done automatically, I think this logic should go into Yum instead of the overhead you get from maintaining a second repository.

Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]