Re: [CentOS] problems with yum_priorities on CentOS5/RHEL5

2010-08-12 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Nick wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Nick oinksoc...@letterboxes.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] problems with yum_priorities on CentOS5/RHEL5 On 10/08/10 17:52, Keith Roberts wrote: 1. yum check-updates and yum update do *not* warn you of an impending unresolved

Re: [CentOS] problems with yum_priorities on CentOS5/RHEL5

2010-08-11 Thread Nick
On 10/08/10 17:52, Keith Roberts wrote: 1. yum check-updates and yum update do *not* warn you of an impending unresolved dependency caused by YP hiding the required package. It seems the only way to find out is if you go ahead and try and perform the update, which potentially leaves you

[CentOS] problems with yum_priorities on CentOS5/RHEL5

2010-08-10 Thread Nick
Hello, Many of you will have read this page, with its (somewhat ambiguous) endorsement of yum_priorities: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge As I gather has been stated before on the centos list [1], that quote stops short of outlining what exactly is wrong with

Re: [CentOS] problems with yum_priorities on CentOS5/RHEL5

2010-08-10 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Nick wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Nick oinksoc...@letterboxes.org Subject: [CentOS] problems with yum_priorities on CentOS5/RHEL5 Hello, Many of you will have read this page, with its (somewhat ambiguous) endorsement of yum_priorities: http