[NTLUG:Discuss] RPM craziness

[Bryan J. Smith]

I'm on my Treo right now, so I can't help you.

But Duke is slowly becoming the official Fedora Project site (even if portions of the servers/network are RedHat).
Not sure if they are the official repositories now, but I'll check when I get home tomorrow.

I still prefer the original Fedora Project site, U of Hawaii Fedora.US, now Fedora Extras
(with "questionable" packages now moved to Livna.ORG).
They have been the best at merging at RHL/FC base+updates, Fedora Extras and Fedora Legacy into an unified repository.
The also distribute APT which sets up a mirror list very easily, include some 3rd parties that directly support the Fedora distribution (e.g., Macromedia).

I haven't met one person who has had troubles with the official Fedora Extras APT and repositories.
I'm still scratching my head why Red Hat is prefering YUM.

-- 
Bryan J. Smith (currently mobile)
b.j.smith at ieee.org

-----Original Message-----
From:  Terry Henderson 
Date:  04-10-23 8:50
To:  NTLUG Discussion List 
Subj:  Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] RPM craziness

On 22 Oct 2004 17:16:58 -0400, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> It means a package required to resolve a dependency is not available in the on-line YUM repository.
> That has nothing to do with the local RPM database.
> 
> Also, where did you get your YUM?
> What repositories are you tapping?
> Are you sticking with the official Fedora Extras / Fedora Legacy repositories (yes, this is for RHL9)?
> 

So we should change /etc/yum.conf lines:
======================================
[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasevver/$base
arch/


[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$$releasev
er/
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