Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:

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IMHO, on my CentOS 5.3 (32 bit) Desktop, RPMForge works very well. I have given it a much higher Priority than EPEL. When I added the EPEL Repository, the number of excluded packages went from approximately 400 to 1705. My belief is that if EPEL had a high priority, it would replace a *LOT* of packages I do not want replaced. <<

Generally, you're right - but in this case, it seems to be purely an rpmforge problem. I'm getting similar problems with a mail gateway which has a lot of Perl modules to support amavisd/clamav/spamassassin:

"There was a problem updating the system. The following error message was reported:

"Failed to build transaction: Missing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib)

= 2.020 is needed by package perl-IO-Compress-2.020-1.el5.rf.noarch

(rpmforge)"

Checking svn at rpmforge shows:

Name: perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib Version: 2.020 Release: 1

so it's in the repo. I assumed it was a problem with the mirror I was using (ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de) so I excluded in it fastestmirror.conf and tried again, this time using fr2.rpmfind.net, but no joy:

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) >= 2.020 is needed by package perl-IO-Compress-2.020-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)

At this point, I'm not going to worry too much about it - it's in the system and should eventually turn up. If not, I guess I'll have to find some time to help out at rpmforge, rebuilding those Perl modules. . .

Best,

--- Les Bell [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144