Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2012 03:03:53 ken did opine: On 06/23/2012 05:36 PM Keith Roberts wrote: IIRC that happened a some years ago with Ubuntu. Ever since that happened I've been wary of the various different custom options available from different Linux distros. I just use the

Re: [CentOS] Python version fights.

2012-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2012 03:06:14 Chris Geldenhuis did opine: On 06/24/2012 02:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greets; This centos6.2 system seems to have python-2.6.6, but that is turning into a huge problem because I now have a backlog of about 40 packages that will not upgrade because

Re: [CentOS] Python version fights.

2012-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2012 07:25:21 Veli-Pekka Kestilä did opine: On 24.6.2012 10:12, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2012 03:06:14 Chris Geldenhuis did opine: On 06/24/2012 02:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greets; This centos6.2 system seems to have python-2.6.6, but that is turning

Re: [CentOS] Python version fights.

2012-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2012 12:43:23 Leonard den Ottolander did opine: Hello Gene, On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 08:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: yum is still showing me 21 packages to update, all from an el5 repo.\ You can figure out what repo that is by rpm -qiing one of the packages

Re: [CentOS] Python version fights.

2012-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2012 16:48:31 Leonard den Ottolander did opine: Hello Gene, On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 12:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: There are no surviving el5 packages on the system, including in the .repo files of yum.repos.d But if I fire up yumex, well over half the files

Re: [CentOS] Python version fights.

2012-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2012 17:27:09 Tony Schreiner did opine: On 6/24/2012 12:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2012 12:43:23 Leonard den Ottolander did opine: Hello Gene, On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 08:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: yum is still showing me 21 packages to update, all

Re: [CentOS] Python version fights.

2012-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2012 17:31:40 Les Mikesell did opine: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: There are no surviving el5 packages on the system, including in the .repo files of yum.repos.d Did you use yum to remove the packages? Yes, except

Re: [CentOS] Python version fights.

2012-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2012 20:43:15 Leonard den Ottolander did opine: Hello Gene, On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 17:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: These are the packages it is showing me that I _could_ install, and nearly every blessed one of them has a dependency on python-2.4. Why yumex is even

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:12:58 Nate Duehr did opine: On Jun 20, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: As for partiality, no way, synaptic, adapted for rpms is by far the best package manager I've used in the last 5 years since I bailed on fedora at about 6 or so. Understand

[CentOS] Python version fights.

2012-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets; This centos6.2 system seems to have python-2.6.6, but that is turning into a huge problem because I now have a backlog of about 40 packages that will not upgrade because they all need python 2.4. That, and importing gpg keys doesn't seem to be helping in that regard. But first, how to

[CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all, newbie to CentOS here. Also newbie to 64 bit installs. Package Manager problem: I found a yumex, which is not part of the 64 bit install, but it wants a way older version of python-2.4 whereas we have 2.6.6-something after the post install upgrade. 1st Question: Is there

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 June 2012 17:08:11 Nate Duehr did opine: On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I found a yumex, which is not part of the 64 bit install, but it wants a way older version of python-2.4 whereas we have 2.6.6-something after the post install upgrade. 1st