[CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

[Ralph Angenendt]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 15:09 -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
> 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:
> >> 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"
> > 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.

This is related to the problem at hand how?

> 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.

This isn't Windows.

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

This is related to the problem at hand how?

> 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.

Yes, probably, but still not related to the problem at hand.

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

Yes, but you couldn't be bothered to check, could you?

Sometimes it would be smarter to not try to help.

Ralph