[CentOS] yum-priorities behavior with downgrades [was: sa-update error with perl]

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Tue Jan 10 08:06:15 UTC 2012


Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 01/09/2012 09:59 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
> In both cases, you are not going to be told about packages already
> installed that are newer than those in the CentOS.
>
> You can find those RPMs though by doing this:
>
> rpm -qa | egrep "\.rf" | sort
>
>
> that will tell you all repoforge rpms installed ... then do this to see
> which ones also have duplicates from base or updates:
>
>
> yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates
> --showduplicates list all $(rpm -q --qf '%{name} ' $(rpm -qa | grep "\.rf"))
>
>
> That should work to tell you which .rf packages are also in base or
> updates.

and if you find any that are .rf (not .rfx==repoforge extras), you can 
report them to the repoforge mailing list or on their github, because 
packages that conflict with base+updates are supposed to be in rfx now, 
not rf.



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