Re: [CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/9/2015 11:26 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've been informed that rpmforge and epel do not play well together and that if I use both, epel should have the higher (lower numbered) priority. Alas I had it the other way around. rpmforge messed up my effort to get audacity. I no longer need

[CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've been informed that rpmforge and epel do not play well together and that if I use both, epel should have the higher (lower numbered) priority. Alas I had it the other way around. rpmforge messed up my effort to get audacity. I no longer need audacity, but would like to fix the situation

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread m . roth
Michael Hennebry wrote: I've been informed that rpmforge and epel do not play well together and that if I use both, epel should have the higher (lower numbered) priority. Alas I had it the other way around. rpmforge messed up my effort to get audacity. I no longer need audacity, but would

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 13:26 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've been informed that rpmforge and epel do not play well together and that if I use both, epel should have the higher (lower numbered) priority. Alas I had it the other way around. rpmforge messed up my effort to get audacity. I

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 9, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: On 06/09/2015 03:42 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: What do you need in rpmforge that isn't available from base, rpmfusion, or epel? Do you happen to know of somewhere other than rpmforge where I can find hexedit and

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/09/2015 03:42 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: What do you need in rpmforge that isn't available from base, rpmfusion, or epel? Do you happen to know of somewhere other than rpmforge where I can find hexedit and gqview for el6 ? Epel has them for el5, but not el6. Fortunately, installing

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: some rpmforge packages may even conflict with the base distro. What do you need in rpmforge that isn't available from base, rpmfusion, or epel? The only thing I know of are some kmod packages from elrepo, and I have the elrepo.repo configuration so

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-09 Thread Scott Silva
snip I didn't mean to stir up a ruckus Thanks for the help Ruckus stirs itself on most mailing lists! Overworked sysadmins just need to go get a cup of coffee and count to 10 before they hit reply, or at least before they hit send. I know that dealing with dwindling IT budgets and angry

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-09 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:50:37AM -0800, Scott Silva wrote: I didn't mean to stir up a ruckus Ruckus stirs itself on most mailing lists! Overworked sysadmins just need to go get a cup of coffee and count to 10 before they hit reply, or at least before they hit send. cen...@centos -- now

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:22 -0500, Mail List wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:26:28 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:46 -0600, rra...@comcast.net wrote: I have not been able to connect to rpmforge for a couple of days You'll probably get a better response, as well

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 17:39 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: You'll probably get a better response, as well as a fix if there is a problem, by posting to that list rather than here. you mean the list you can't find since the rpmforge website is apparently down?

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 08:00 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 17:39 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: You'll probably get a better response, as well as a fix if there is a problem, by posting to that list rather than here. you mean the

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread rray_1
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 08:00 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 17:39 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: You'll probably get a better response, as well as a fix if there is a problem, by posting to that list

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 08:43 -0600, rra...@comcast.net wrote: On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: snip I didn't mean to stir up a ruckus Not your fault at all. I know that Dag often monitors this list and on occasions when he can't/doesn't get stuff resolved at the rpmforge

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread John R Pierce
rra...@comcast.net wrote: I have not been able to connect to rpmforge for a couple of days Is it me or is there a problem with the repository fyi, its back online per a email reply to my query on the users/at/lists.rpmforge.net list... ___

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-07 Thread rray_1
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, John R Pierce wrote: rra...@comcast.net wrote: I have not been able to connect to rpmforge for a couple of days Is it me or is there a problem with the repository fyi, its back online per a email reply to my query on the users/at/lists.rpmforge.net list... confirmed

[CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-06 Thread rray_1
I have not been able to connect to rpmforge for a couple of days Is it me or is there a problem with the repository Richard ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:46 -0600, rra...@comcast.net wrote: I have not been able to connect to rpmforge for a couple of days Is it me or is there a problem with the repository You'll probably get a better response, as well as a fix if there is a problem, by posting to that list rather than

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-06 Thread Mail List
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:26:28 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:46 -0600, rra...@comcast.net wrote: I have not been able to connect to rpmforge for a couple of days You'll probably get a better response, as well as a fix if there is a problem, by posting to that list

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-06 Thread John R Pierce
William L. Maltby wrote: You'll probably get a better response, as well as a fix if there is a problem, by posting to that list rather than here. you mean the list you can't find since the rpmforge website is apparently down? luckily, google had a cached entry for it. i signed up for

[CentOS] rpmforge i386 and x86_64?

2008-11-12 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi Is it possible to have rpmforge for both architectures? Currently is only for 64bit, but I need some libraries 32bit (rrdtool) to install ganglia. But if I try to install rpmforge i386, I got the message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mgarcia]# rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge i386 and x86_64? Solved

2008-11-12 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Mogens Kjaer wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi Is it possible to have rpmforge for both architectures? Currently is only for 64bit, but I need some libraries 32bit (rrdtool) to install ganglia. A problem is that the /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge file has $ARCH in it, which would still

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge i386 and x86_64?

2008-11-12 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi Is it possible to have rpmforge for both architectures? Currently is only for 64bit, but I need some libraries 32bit (rrdtool) to install ganglia. A problem is that the /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge file has $ARCH in it, which would still be x86_64 even if

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

2008-10-09 Thread Joe Pruett
Anything like this would probably have to be an upstream thing. But it would probably be a good idea for people to put this into their kickstart configs... i think that the yum setup diverges from upstream already, so i don't see this as a big change from that.

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

2008-10-08 Thread Joe Pruett
also, i'd like to suggest that the priorities plugin be made added to the base install and that the centos-base repos be configured with priority 1. it looks like c4 has the priority setting, but c5 doesn't and neither have the plugin installed. it seems like this would create a little more

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 10:40 -0700, Joe Pruett wrote: rpmforge has just released a new perl-DBD-mysql for el4 that has an obsoletes against perl-DBD-MySQL and the protectbase yum plugin doesn't grok obsoletes. the priorities plugin does. so if you are having issues with this, install the

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

2008-10-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Joe Pruett wrote on Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:48:48 -0700 (PDT): i forgot to add to my suggestion: make the check_obsoletes option in yum-priorities be enabled by default for c5 as it is in c4. There's also an obsoletes option in yum.conf. That option you are talking about is for priorities.conf

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge-release install/rpm problem

2008-07-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jim Perrin wrote on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:47:03 -0400: This is a known issue with rpm's http code. It doesn't do cookies. It can't really follow redirects (302 or otherwise) well, and generally it's a hack. Ah, well, now I understand. Yes, there occurs a redirect. It once used to work, with

[CentOS] rpmforge-release install/rpm problem

2008-07-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I wanted to install the rpmforge-release package on a new install and get the following. Do others have the same problem? b51:~ rpm -ivvvh http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge- release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm Retrieving

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge-release install/rpm problem

2008-07-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
Kai Schaetzl wrote: I wanted to install the rpmforge-release package on a new install and get the following. Do others have the same problem? b51:~ rpm -ivvvh http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge- release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm Retrieving

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge-release install/rpm problem

2008-07-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Karanbir Singh wrote on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:22:21 +0100: go look at the http code in rpm :D do you get the same result? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge-release install/rpm problem

2008-07-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: go look at the http code in rpm :D do you get the same result? This is a known issue with rpm's http code. It doesn't do cookies. It can't really follow redirects (302 or otherwise) well, and generally it's a hack. That's

[CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread Anne Wilson
For several days now I've been trying to update clamav from rpmforge without success. Does anyone know what's likely to be the problem? Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:33:33PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: For several days now I've been trying to update clamav from rpmforge without success. Does anyone know what's likely to be the problem? As has been covered before, this isn't the correct list for this question. There is a

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 April 2008 14:38, John wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:33 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: For several days now I've been trying to update clamav from rpmforge without success. Does anyone know what's likely to be the problem? Anne Did you try to manually download it? Several

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread Ralph Angenendt
John wrote: rpm -qa | grep clam clamav-db-0.91.2-1.el5.rf clamd-0.91.2-1.el5.rf clamav-0.91.2-1.el5.rf Those are stone old and have security issues. DO NOT USE THEM. Ralph pgpQrKh5f8JeZ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:33 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: For several days now I've been trying to update clamav from rpmforge without success. Does anyone know what's likely to be the problem? Anne Did you try to manually download it? Several peeps seem to be having a problem with. Don't

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:47 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008 14:38, John wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:33 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: For several days now I've been trying to update clamav from rpmforge without success. Does anyone know what's likely to be the problem?

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:56 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: John wrote: rpm -qa | grep clam clamav-db-0.91.2-1.el5.rf clamd-0.91.2-1.el5.rf clamav-0.91.2-1.el5.rf Those are stone old and have security issues. DO NOT USE THEM. Ralph Now your forcing me to yum update clamav! I know

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:47 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008 14:38, John wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:33 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: For several days now I've been trying to update clamav from rpmforge without success. Does anyone know what's likely to be the problem?

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez
Hello, I have suffered the same problem you describe with clam updates. Finally it worked the upgrade from 0.92.XXX to 0.93. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i clam clamav-db-0.93-2.el4.rf.i386 clamd-0.93-2.el4.rf.i386 clamav-0.93-2.el4.rf.i386 The problem I had was that at starting the

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 19:41 +0200, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote: snip P.S.: Yes, I do love top-posting if it helps (before some taliban says something to me, the list is to help people. I hope not to be unpolite) snip I'm not taliban, nor intolerant. But Have you thought about what you

Re: [CentOS] RPMforge metadata problems

2007-10-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dag Wieers wrote on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:35:42 +0200 (CEST): Yesterday evening I added a TIMESTAMP to the root of my tree in order to follow up on the correctness of mirrors. And after 12 hours more than 50% of the mirrors do not have that TIMESTAMP file. It is possible that it is filtered

[CentOS] RPMforge metadata problems

2007-10-12 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, Yesterday evening I added a TIMESTAMP to the root of my tree in order to follow up on the correctness of mirrors. And after 12 hours more than 50% of the mirrors do not have that TIMESTAMP file. It is possible that it is filtered out, so the test is not at all valid. I am going to reduce the

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-09-06 Thread David Hrbáč
Peter Kjellstrom napsal(a): We see it too. My assumption is that it has to do with slow mirror sync somehow. It seems a bunch of mirrors typically sit on a old or new version that does not work with the local data (previously pulled from another mirror). My typical fix is to ignore it

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-09-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dag Wieers wrote on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:21:38 +0200 (CEST): I wonder if this could be related to the fact that the metadata and data are synchronized independently and not with the rsync --delay-updates options. The error refers to the metadata only it seems. What exactly does this check

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-30 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of mirrors. I don't use a mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package. That retrieves the list of mirrors and tries one

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:21 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: I wonder if this could be related to the fact that the metadata and data are synchronized independently and not with the rsync --delay-updates options. Seems like a reasonable hypothesis. How hard would it be to test it by synchronizing

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-28 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of mirrors. I don't use a mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package. That retrieves the list of mirrors and tries one (at random it seems). The checksum fails, it

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of mirrors. I don't use a mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package. That retrieves the list of mirrors and

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-27 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
I've only seen this on networks where I (or my providers) use proxies, however you may have better luck asking on the rpmforge user's list. M... I sufer this issue frequently. And I establish the connection from several sites (home, work). Maybe I'm behind a proxy network in my hme

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dag Wieers wrote on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:33:21 +0200 (CEST): If you do have problems related to network issues, setting up a local mirror is a good way to control the environment _and_ save ond bandwidth. It's sure not a network issue. Don't experience it at the moment as yum is still using