[CentOS-devel] once again: epel VS Centos

Sat Jun 28 23:26:57 UTC 2014
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 02:44:27PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> Before I take this to the EPEL folks, I'd appreciate a sanity check:
> 
> I did a full reinstall of C7 on my C7 vm a couple days ago (to resolve
> the caatch-22 on updating the kernel), and subsequent to that I cannot
> install MATE from epel. "yum group install mate-desktop" gives me these
> errors (trimmed from all the non-error stuff):
> 
> 
> Error: Package: mate-control-center-1.8.1-1.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libXss.so.1()(64bit)
> Error: Package: fortune-mod-1.99.1-17.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: librecode.so.0()(64bit)
> Error: Package: caja-image-converter-1.8.0-1.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: ImageMagick
> Error: Package: mate-screensaver-1.8.0-2.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libXss.so.1()(64bit)
> Error: Package: atril-libs-1.8.0-2.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libt1.so.5()(64bit)
> Error: Package: beesu-2.7-19.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: usermode-gtk
> Error: Package: atril-libs-1.8.0-2.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: libkpathsea.so.6()(64bit)
> Error: Package: caja-1.8.0-2.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: gamin
> 
> this did not occur a week or so earlier when I installed Mate from epel
> on an earlier version of the c7 RC.
> 
> I don't know where to find those packages, either. With only yum configs
> for C7 and epel, those packages don't seem to be available.
> 
> Am I just being too impatient and should instead wait for the rest of
> the linux-sphere to catch up with C7?

Ah, stupidity strikes again. I had neglected to create a .repo file
for the QA repo. duh.
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