On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Steve Campbell wrote:

I should change this to OT, as it's not really CentOS related.

I had a post on the list last week asking how the rpmforge rpm was to be implemented in yum. Craig White was kind enough to list how his yum.conf is appended, I assume after he installed the rpm.

Unfortunately, mine is not appended with these lines. I am running CentOS 3. I will add these lines manually, and probably remove the yum.repos.d folder. This could be related to the fact that this was an upgraded Tao machine, and I had to remove and reinstall the yum rpms as the centosplus repos were also not in the conf file, but the main repos for Centos were there.

I just wanted to let people know that installing the rpmforge rpm doesn't seem to work all the time. It seems to think that I have a CentOS 4 version of yum, so it creates the extra repos folder, adds the mirrors and conf files under the repos folder and does not append the yum.conf with the repository info. I have probably done something improper along the Tao->Centos upgrade path, but I am not sure what. Thanks for all of the help.

Why not be on topic and use the RPMforge mailinglists ?

Fact is that the yum that comes with RHEL3 does not allow to dump a config-file in a directory and I'm not going to rewrite the existing yum.conf to enable RPMforge automatically because that is a dangerous thing to do.

If you would have been using apt, it would work automatically on all distributions.

Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]