yum.conf exclude

[Charles Howse]

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On Thursday 25 March 2004 08:35 am, Dexter Ang wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:07, Charles Howse wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > I just need some assurance that I haven't broken my system...
> >
> > I have accidentally let yum update xmms from 1.2.9 to 1.2.10, and now I
> > get the "We don't do mp3 anymore" msg when trying to play a stream from
> > ShoutCast.
> >
> > I did
> > # yum remove xmms
> > but it wanted to remove some kde files (can't remember the names) as
> > dependencies, which I thought was a bad idea, and cancelled.
> >
> > I have done
> > # rpm -e --nodeps xmms
> > and
> > #rpm -ivh ~/tmp/xmms-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm
> > which fixed the problem, and have added exclude=xmms to my /etc/yum/conf.
>
> why not simply install the xmms-mp3 rpm for the mp3 plugin? then disable
> the mp3-placeholder plug in in xmms. i'm using xmms 1.2.10 with the
> xmms-mp3 plug for that same version, playing a stream on shoutcast right
> now. works fine.
>
> you can get the yum.conf from http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/ and check
> that out. it includes enabled fedora.us and rpm.livna.org. or you can
> just download the rpm for xmms-mp3 from livna manually.

Thanks for the reply Dex (and Bart).

I'm aware of the xmms-mp3 rpm, and of course, that is a fine solution.

The reasons I did it like I did are, restoring my local copy of xmms-1.2.9 
didn't require a download, didn't need to enable/disable a plugin, didn't 
need to concern myself with whether xmms-mp3 would still work with the next 
update, etc.

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Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
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