On 03/31/2010 08:18 AM William Hooper wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:30 AM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: >> Available Packages >> gmime.i386 2.2.25-1.el5 >> epel >> gmime-devel.i386 2.2.25-1.el5 >> epel > > The newer version of gmime is coming from the epel repo, which doesn't > appear to package gmime-sharp. > >> .... > >> # rpm -qi gmime gmime-sharp|grep URL >> URL : http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/ >> URL : http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/ > > The URL file generally just describes where the original source comes > from, not what repo is being used. A better indicator of repo would > be the Vendor, Packager, or Build Host fields. Understood. Using "rpm -qi", the "Vendor" field shows just "CentOS", the "Build Host" reads simply "builder6", and there is no "Packager" field. I tried using the "--queryformat" option a few different way to output the packager, but no luck. That would be a big help in figuring out this kind of situation. > .... > > That is interesting. Did your yum install command specify to install > gmime-sharp? Yes, it's needed by tomboy, an applet I use. > .... > >> So.. what's the next thing to do? > > Either exclude gmime from the epel repo Would that be simply "exclude=gmime*" in epel.repo ? > or ask epel to package gmime-sharp. I've got no juice there, wouldn't even know who to contact. Thanks to everyone for the really good help.