[CentOS] CentOS repo question

Wed Apr 22 14:38:37 UTC 2020
Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie>

On Wed, 2020-04-22 at 08:25 -0500, johnny at centos.org wrote:
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> On 4/21/20 2:09 PM, Tony Molloy wrote:
> > 	
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I've just installed a test laptop with CentOS Stream 8.1.
> > 
> > I notice that the default install has both CentOS-Base and
> > CentOS-Base-Appstream repos enabled. Is that necessary, or should I
> > just have the Appstream repos enabled.
> > 
> > The reason I'm asking is because I'm having trouble updating the
> > installation. The problem seems to be some installed rpms seem to
> > depend on updates from the CentOS-Base repos and others seem to
> > depend
> > on similar updates from the CentOS-Base-Appstream repos and you
> > can't
> > install both.
> > 
> > A typical error looks like this.
> > 
> > cannot install both qt5-qttools-common-5.12.5-1.el8.0.1.noarch and 
> > qt5-qttools-common-5.11.1-9.el8.noarch
> > 
> > qt5-qttools-common-5.11.1-9.el8.noarch is from CentOS-Base
> > 
> > qt5-qttools-common-5.12.5-1.el8.0.1.noarch is from
> > CentOS-Base-Appstream
> > 
> > So updating some installed rpm depends on updating to the Appstream
> > version of qt5-qttools and some other installed rpm depends on the
> > original CentOS-Base version of qt5-qttools.
> > 
> > I've played around with --allowerasing --best and --nobest but
> > still
> > can't get a clean update.
> 
> We are working out Stream issues right now .. but no, it is not
> necessary to have all the repos active.  You only have to have one
> set
> of Base, Appstream, and Extras enabled (CentOS Stream or CentOS
> Linux).
> 
> Stream standup is very much a work in progress at this point , but it
> is
> what i am using as my personal workstation (for whatever that is
> worth).
> 
> You SHOULD be able to have both sets enabled though .. and will be
> able
> to once we have all the issues solved .. but i don't have them both
> enabled on my workstation right now, just CentOS Stream.
> 
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
> 
> 

Thanks Johnny. I'll go with the Stream repos enabled and see how that
works out.

Regards,

Tony
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