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 tha

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.

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 9, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Robert Nichols 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 gqview for el6 ?

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 the

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 w

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 audac

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...@cen

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-09 Thread Scott Silva
> > 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 m

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... > c

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 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: > > > 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 site/lis

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 t

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. > > > > > > >

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 > apparent

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

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

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 li

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 h

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 be

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 i

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 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 a

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 th

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 st

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 a

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. Tha

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 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 http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rp

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 21 April 2008 18:41:31 Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote: > 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.i38

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge problem

2008-04-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 19:41 +0200, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote: > > 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) > I'm not taliban, nor intolerant. But Have you thought about what you just

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 cl

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 pr

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 pr

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

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 Ce

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? S

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

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 L

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 filter

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 (e

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 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

2007-08-30 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 a

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 mirr

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 fai

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dag Wieers wrote on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:21:49 +0200 (CEST): > You could start off with specifying what server you are using and whether > you have the same problem with other mirrors. As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of mirrors. I don't use "a" mirror. I installed yo

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-27 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > 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

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 t

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-27 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > > 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 site

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jim Perrin wrote on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:18:19 -0400: > 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. I'm not using a proxy. On first glance it looks to me like the repo gets so frequently updated t

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 conn

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Perrin
On 8/26/07, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Almost each time I want to use rpmforge with yum I get a "Metadata file > does not meet checksum" error. Yum usually has to try at least five > mirrors before it succeeds, sometimes it doesn't find a mirror with a > useable file. This is with Ce