[Arm-dev] Attempt to install Xfce by hand

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/17/18 8:51 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
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> El 17/10/18 a las 09:45, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
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>> On 10/17/18 5:27 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
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>>> Robert,
>>>
>>> El 15/10/18 a las 17:54, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
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>>>> Anyway, I am putting Centos-arm work away and going back to 
>>>> Nethserver (which is still Centos-arm) until Pablo is able to make 
>>>> the necessary DE group(s).  Or someone else much more skilled than I.
>>> Yesterday I got the xml from epel, and now the groups are available 
>>> in our rebuild.
>>> I didn't automate it yet, so I need to rebuild repodata manually to 
>>> add the groups, so they may not be there all the time.
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>> I see what you mean.  I did a yum clean all on my working image, and 
>> there it was!
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>> So I wiped the image by laying down the minimal again.  Did firstboot 
>> and yum update and then tried
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>> yum groupinstall xfce
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>> And it was not there.
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>> Did a yum clean all and yum group list and now no xfce
>>
>> :(
>>
>> So I will check back later
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>>
> I'm seeing it ATM

I think it has not gone to all the mirrors:

# yum clean metadata
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Cleaning repos: base centos-kernel extras updates
14 metadata files removed
8 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed
[root at ct-c7 ~]# yum groups list
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
  * base: ftp.osuosl.org
  * centos-kernel: ftp.osuosl.org
  * extras: ftp.osuosl.org
  * updates: ftp.osuosl.org
base                                                     | 3.8 kB     00:00
centos-kernel                                            | 2.9 kB     00:00
extras                                                   | 2.9 kB     00:00
updates                                                  | 2.9 kB     00:00
(1/5): base/7/armhfp/group_gz                              | 155 kB   00:06
(2/5): centos-kernel/7/armhfp/primary_db                   |  49 kB   00:07
(3/5): extras/7/armhfp/primary_db                          | 161 kB   00:07
(4/5): updates/7/armhfp/primary_db                         | 885 kB   00:08
(5/5): base/7/armhfp/primary_db                            | 4.1 MB   00:08
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Done

How do I force the mirror to what you are using?