On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:31:46AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0195.html (from this January) > adds support for setting yum options like 'protect = 1' on the RHN > repositories. You do this by adding the options to the appropriate > section in:
Nice! > For Window it is pretty clear that the non-perl RPM-forge packages are > just stray upgrades. > > Window > ====== > python-paramiko-1.7.4-1.el5.rf 1.7.4 available in EPEL > subversion-perl-1.4.3-0.1.el5.rf 1.4.2 is the base RHEL version > subversion-1.4.3-0.1.el5.rf 1.4.2 is the base RHEL version > python-dateutil-1.2-1.el5.rf 1.2 is in EPEL as well > p7zip-4.57-1.el5.rf 4.61 available in EPEL Above: all use EPEL/RHEL. > ngrep-1.45-1.el5.rf Not in EPEL. Do we need? Used it once for debugging (seeing the HTTP request). Can be removed. > Menubar is a more complicated situation, We have the RPMForge versions > of clamav and amavis installed, rather than the EPEL versions. Then we > have a whole pile of unarchivers that are presumably used by clamav to > enhance its operations, many of which aren't available in EPEL. (and > gocr - does spamassassin really try to OCR images? Or is it just a > stray...) I configured gocr when spammers used it often. So it is still somewhere in the config. But we could drop it. > Menubar > ======= > git-1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf 1.6.0.6 packaged in GNOME repo Should use GNOME. > lzop-1.01-2.el5.rf 1.02 available in EPEL > lzo-1.08-4.2.el5.rf 2.02 available in EPEL > lzo-devel-1.08-4.2.el5.rf " > amavisd-new-2.5.4-1.el5.rf 2.4.5-1.el5 available in EPEL > clamav-0.94-1.el5.rf 0.95.1 available in EPEL > clamav-db-0.94-1.el5.rf " > clamd-0.94-1.el5.rf " > cabextract-1.2-1.el5.rf 1.1-5 available in EPEL > rrdtool-1.2.23-1.el5.rf 1.2.27-3 available in EPEL > nomarch-1.4-1.el5.rf 1.4 available in EPEL Just use EPEL. > ngrep-1.45-1.el5.rf Not in EPEL. Do we need? Remove it. > p0f-2.0.8-1.el5.rf Not in EPEL. Do we need? Required. I use it for spamfiltering. It is a very good source (basically: passively determines the OS of the connecting machine to apply e.g. a +1 score to Windows XP) > ripole-0.2.0-1.2.el5.rf > freeze-2.5.0-1.2.el5.rf > unrar-3.8.2-1.el5.rf > zoo-2.10-2.2.el5.rf > lha-1.14i-19.2.2.el5.rf > arc-5.21o-1.el5.rf > unarj-2.63-0.a.2.el5.rf > gocr-0.44-1.el5.rf > > Once we get menubar into the puppet system, I don't see any practical > alternative to just listing the 10-15 extra packages we need from > RPMForge in our rpmforge.repo includepkgs line. We probably also want to > exclude clamav and amavis from epel.repo to prevent them from bouncing > back and forth between the package sources. Indeed. Note: sometimes rpmforge and EPEL have differences in the setup. So be careful with clam* and amavis*. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
