[CentOS] rpmforge repo for centos5

Tue May 8 06:51:00 UTC 2007
MrKiwi <mrkiwi at gmail.com>

Dave wrote:
> Hi,
>    I just downloaded and installed the rpmforge-release rpm file for 
> centos5. Ftp isn't working here, so it went http, but the http mirrors 
> are giving me error 11, connections refused. Is this a problem with the 
> particular mirror?
>    Also, how do i query a specific repo to find out what packages it 
> contains?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
> 
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This works for me in my post-install procedures;

<snip>
rpmforge_version=rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
wget 
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/$rpmforge_version
rpm -Uhv $rpmforge_version
rm -vf $rpmforge_version
</snip>

MrKiwi