YUM and yum.conf - for the interested one's

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:15:12PM +0000, Peter Cannon wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 12:05, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > i tried to place the currenct repo's in one file called "others" so i can
> > handle it via differenct conf-files. I send you here my yum.conf and the
> > contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/others.repo:
> 
> Hm, I added ATrpms and it caused me loads of grief, yum reported about 11 
> updates, being a gifted idiot I trusted yum and said Y to the install 
> request.
> 
> I was presented with loads of errors, failed dependancies and "xxx...." is 
> already installed, surfice to say I have disabled this repo.

Disabling a repo due to yum errors? The new yum has brought some new
bugs, see for instance

      http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=288
      http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=289

You should either use the old yum (yum20) or apt-get. Or use the
workarounds in the bug reports.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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