Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-26 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 24 March 2008 18:59:59 Les Mikesell wrote: > Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> One is from the kbs repo, and one is from rpmforge. Mostly, you're > >> mixing similar packages from different repositories. This is a bad > >> thing, and the reason for the existence of priorities, and > >> protectbas

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 24 March 2008 18:43:43 Sam Drinkard wrote: >     As Jim just pointed out to me, I was unaware of the mixing.. I'll > see what else I can muck up while trying to fix this :) I'm surprised that no-one mentioned the skip-broken plugin. You'd still have to sort out your clamav problem, but

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Drinkard wrote: One is from the kbs repo, and one is from rpmforge. Mostly, you're mixing similar packages from different repositories. This is a bad thing, and the reason for the existence of priorities, and protectbase plugins, as well as include/exclude statements on a per repository ba

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update". # yum update Setting

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command "yum upda

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 24 March 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote: > I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul > please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact > installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update". > > # yum update > Setting up Update Process >

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul > please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact > installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update". > --> Process