Hi
I just installed CentOS 5.2 (x86_64), and everything was fine. After installing the "epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm", and issuing "yum check-update", I can see that "epel" is trying to upgrade to version 5.3.
First I didn't notice the problem, and after upgrading, I got the message "error sumary" when updating the system.
It seems that the x86 (32bit) version is working fine.
Does anybody else having similar problem?
Thanks
Marcelo
On 3/6/09, Marcelo M. Garcia marcelo.maia.garcia@googlemail.com wrote:
I just installed CentOS 5.2 (x86_64), and everything was fine. After installing the "epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm", and issuing "yum check-update", I can see that "epel" is trying to upgrade to version 5.3.
First I didn't notice the problem, and after upgrading, I got the message "error sumary" when updating the system.
It seems that the x86 (32bit) version is working fine.
Do you have the yum priorities plug in installed? If not, you should install it and I suggest you give EPEL a very low priority, to protect your system. I installed the EPEL repository a week or two ago and the number of packages being protected on my 32 bit CentOS 5.2 Desktop went from approximately 350 to approximately 1600. http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On 3/6/09, Marcelo M. Garcia marcelo.maia.garcia@googlemail.com wrote:
I just installed CentOS 5.2 (x86_64), and everything was fine. After installing the "epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm", and issuing "yum check-update", I can see that "epel" is trying to upgrade to version 5.3.
First I didn't notice the problem, and after upgrading, I got the message "error sumary" when updating the system.
It seems that the x86 (32bit) version is working fine.
Do you have the yum priorities plug in installed? If not, you should install it and I suggest you give EPEL a very low priority, to protect your system. I installed the EPEL repository a week or two ago and the number of packages being protected on my 32 bit CentOS 5.2 Desktop went from approximately 350 to approximately 1600. http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
While it's certainly a good idea to use yum-priorities, EPEL policy is such that its repository does not (should not) contain packages that conflict with base OS packages.
This can obviously change a bit as upstream adds packages between minor version releases that conflict with EPEL packages.
Ray
Ray Van Dolson wrote on Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:30:09 -0800:
While it's certainly a good idea to use yum-priorities, EPEL policy is such that its repository does not (should not) contain packages that conflict with base OS packages.
Would you really bet on that? I certainly won't. With no repo.
Kai
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