Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 13:13 +0100 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: > Chris, that can get *really* nasty. The problem is partly that for > registered RHEL clients, they use what is basically up2date in > grandma's clothing as part of the yum-rhn-plugin utility that > downloads RPM's from RedHat Network. This has no Yum .repo file: you > wind up having to edit yum.conf and exclude the alternative versions > of the packages *entirely*, but only on the x86_64 platforms. That > means you can't use the same yum.conf on i386 and x86_64, and it can > become awkward to support. I'm convinced that graceful 3rdparty > repositories like RPMforge should avoid having to tweak *other* system > files to operate correctly, especially when the solution is simply to > follow RHEL's example and make the i386 package available in the > x86_64 repository.
Well in that case I will have to say the horrible truth again. rpmforge is not a distrubution but a unmanaged loose collection of RPMs. The best solution for production systems is NOT to use rpmforge directly but instead cherry pick stuff in your own repo. In that repo you could choose your way of work around. Another point for the exclude method is that base repo (even if it has a a highe prio) will never install update over your installed rpmforge packages. As for RHEL if i read http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0195.html right you can use exclude= in rhnplugin.conf. Chris financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung Frankfurt: Messeturm | Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49 | 60327 Frankfurt | Germany Management board/Vorstand: Dr. Steffen Boehnert | Dr. Alexis Eisenhofer | Dr. Yann Samson | Matthias Wiederwach Supervisory board/Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Dr. Ernst zur Linden (chairman/Vorsitzender) Register court/Handelsregister: Munich – HRB 128 972 | Sales tax ID number/St.Nr.: DE205 370 553 _______________________________________________ suggest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/suggest
