On Monday 24 March 2008 18:59:59 Les Mikesell wrote: > Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> One is from the kbs repo, and one is from rpmforge. Mostly, you're > >> mixing similar packages from different repositories. This is a bad > >> thing, and the reason for the existence of priorities, and > >> protectbase plugins, as well as include/exclude statements on a per > >> repository basis. > > > > Thanks for pointing that out. I had not even noticed the differences. > > When I installed clamav and everything, I let yum do it, so I just > > assumed it would pull in all the right pieces. I know not to mix > > repositories, so I'm at a loss how this happened. I assume now I have > > to install the correct clamav package and clamav-db? What would best > > practices do - remove the earlier version and start over? It's been > > quite a while since I did any stuff on the machine, as it just runs and > > works as it's supposed to do, but I see now I need to start playing > > catch-up. > > I'd make sure all the 3rd party repos are disabled in their > /etc/yum.repos.d files, do an 'rpm -e ...' of any questionable packages, > then do a 'yum --enablerepo=reponame install package1 package2...' so > you can group the specific sets together from the same repo. That > doesn't guarantee it will come out right but at least it gives a hint > about what you want to happen. I would also back to a separate directory up any configuration files for the software you are about to re-install especially if they are not default configuration files. That way you can always compare before and after settings. Regards John -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240