On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 09:01 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: > > This is related to the problem at hand how? > > > > The OP has a problem resulting from mixing standard and 3rd party > repos, and has noticed some obvious issues. No, he doesn't. His yum hangs. > >> 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. > > > > True. But figuring out which packages came from which repo, can > be difficult. Sure, but that is not what this problem is about. > There was a hotly debated repotag battle that could > have mitigated the problem. The epel folks were strongly opposed. What does that have to do with the problem at hand? > The problem becomes really nasty, when package xyz from repo A, > is incompatible with package xyz from repo B. What does that have to do with the problem at hand? > >> 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? > > > > The OP was using packages from the standard repos, > epel, and a couple other repos I never heard of for > a reason that he did not share with us. yum-priorities > can be used to control which packages are installed > from which libraries. And yet his problem is that yum hangs. This is related to the above how? > But since you insist. > > Here's the wiki page on repositiories. > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories I didn't insist. I just wanted to know what your mail had to do with the problem at hand. Ralph