Ned Slider wrote: > On 23/07/12 15:48, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >> And for the guy from the elrepo team, you'll note it was *not* an elrepo >> problem, which is what I'd suspected, unless the repodata file's changed >> since Friday. > > It was a problem caused by *you* editing the default elrepo config file > and not understanding the implications and subsequent problems caused by > *your* changes. So you are correct that it was not an elrepo problem, it > was a "user" issue. And you clearly don't like the idea that I might edit the elrepo.repo because I might only want to allow *one* package, even though everyone knows that some other elrepo packages result in conflicts with the base CentOS repositories. > > No one ever said it was an elrepo problem, it was noted that the elrepo > mailing list was a more appropriate place to deal with issues relating > to the elrepo.repo config file as this has absolutely nothing to do with > CentOS. > > The point is that you would have been given the solution a lot quicker > if you had just posted the whole config file when you were asked rather > than waste everyone's time with your attitude. You didn't care to pay attention to what I *DID* post. The rest of it was identical to, in fact, what I posted twice. I did not feel I needed to clutter up the mailing list the way some folks do, with many dozens or hundreds of lines of error messages or config files, when I certainly know enough to pull out the relevant information. <snip> And the guy who *did* read what I posted did help me. mark "this thread declared dead"