I feel your pain.  I made the mistake of following instructions for
installing Asterisk on CentOS and trying them on an RHEL box awhile back.
The version numbers were the same so I figured it would be safe.  The
directions had me add a repo that "upgraded" some vital packages and
completely horked the system.  Thankfully it was meant to ONLY be an
asterisk server, nevertheless dependency hell was so bad I just wiped and
reinstalled the OS.


On the bright side I now know several different ways how NOT to install a
working asterisk server :)


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Charles Curley <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I just got hit with my own sloppiness.
>
> I have some Debian boxes where all the repos call out for "stable", and
> others where all the repos call out for the release, "squeeze" or now
> "wheezy". Those are fine.
>
> This morning I found one box had almost all repos calling for
> "squeeze", but one called for "stable". As long as "stable" meant
> "squeeze" I was fine. However, it now means "wheezy". I found this out
> this morning when I found myself in dependency hell, something I had
> not seen for a while.
>
> I probably got my repos mixed by uncritically copying sources lines
> from web sites.
>
> So let that be a warning!
>
> This line, and a similar one for "squeeze" or "wheezy" should help find
> such problems.
>
> find /etc/apt -type f | xargs grep -i stable | grep -v '~'
>
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