On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, William L. Maltby wrote: > Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:23:50 -0400 > From: William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > To: CentOS General List <centos at centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum, duplicate packages, 4.3->4.4 upgrade. > > On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 17:15 +0200, itayf at nospammail.net wrote: >> Hi, >> >> <snip> > >> 4. I have enabled the dries, kbsingh, and rpmforge, repositories >> for few packages (acroread, pine,...). However, I didn't >> keep track which packages come from those repos so I can't >> apply the 'includepkgs' instruction on them. What's the >> easiest way to recover that information? (Default >> 'yum list installed' doesn't provide the repository.) > > I /var/log/rpmpkgs is a (weeklyupdated?) list of file names. Some have > ".rf" in them, other "plus" etc. This should tell you for most packages > from where they came. > That't what I was looking for - thanks! BTW, I noticed that the packages in the dries repo are labeled with 'rf', the same as rpmforge. One is the mirror of the other? > I would then read up on some of the yum stuff (plugins) and use a > combination of "includepkgs=", "exclude=" and "protect=" to get you > going. Set this stuff up before you do any other changes. "protect=" I used from the start in this installation. But I realized the significance of "includepkgs=" and "exclude=" too late. Hence my questions. Thanks for the help. Itay >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Itay >> <snip pkg list> > > HTH > -- > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >