On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 03:07 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > Hi > Are we ever going to have Repository Peace? > At least with major pieces of software such as Clamav? > > ATrpms defines it one way, Extras another way and > RPMForge a third way and none of them is compatible with the others. > This is ridiculous. If each one wants to keep their directory > structure and > other settings,fine! but at least they should test for the proper > existences of > already known alternatives. > > It is a pain when a program has Clamav as a dependency and it is not > met despite > the fact that you indeed has it, only that not from the same > repository family I think that was one of the reasons it is not advised to enable all three of them in yum at once. Stick with extras, unless you know that a package is specific to ATrpms or RPMForge, then use: yum -y --enablerepo rpmforge install blahblah.rpm then yum will grab the package from that site then. Otherwise the repo isn't used by default. You might give that a whirl. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
