[CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

[drew einhorn]

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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Akemi Yagi<amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dave Stevens<geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This
>> happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have
>> tried "yum clean all" but no joy - the process hangs again on "extras"
>> - see second listing below. Suggestions?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> [root at cserver ~]# yum check-update
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>  * epel: fedora.mirror.facebook.net
>>  * base: ftp.telus.net
>>  * updates: ftp.telus.net
>>  * addons: ftp.telus.net
>>  * extras: ftp.telus.net
>> epel                                                     | 2.1 kB     00:00
>> virtualmin                                               |  951 B     00:00
>> pgdg83                                                   | 1.9 kB     00:00
>> virtualmin-universal                                     |  951 B     00:00
>> base                                                     | 1.1 kB     00:00
>> updates                                                  |  951 B     00:00
>> addons                                                   |  951 B     00:00
>> extras                                                   | 1.1 kB     00:00
>
> I suspect it is the non-CentOS repos that are causing the hang (?).
>
> You might want to check that by running:
>
> yum update --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base,extras,updates
>
> and see if this one runs fine.

This will get things back to standard repos only.

But if you have already loaded an incompatible package  from a
nonstandard repo, this will not fix it.

Rather than trying to figure out what you have and how to fix it,
it may be easier to start over an build a new system from scratch.

You can probably get the 3rd party repos to play nicer with one another
by using yum-priorities.

There are techniques for finer grained management of
compatiblity issues among repositories, that I have never
needed to learn about.  Someday this is going to sneak
up and bite me.

Pretty sure there is a 3rd party repo page in the centos wiki.

I've never heard of some of these repos.

epel wants to be the only 3rd party repo,
and sometimes there are issues with other 3rd party repos

-- 
Drew Einhorn