[elrepo] ELRepo, RPMForge and yum-priorities

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Nicolas Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using CentOS on desktops for a long time (with an occasional stint
> to Fedora, which never lasted more than a couple of days :oD), but I only
> recently discovered ELRepo, which looks great. The sort of thing I wish I had
> discovered sooner, as it would have spared me some hassle. Thumbs up to the
> maintainers!

Welcome to ELRepo and thanks for the kudos.

> Until now, I've only been using RPMForge as 3rd party repo, with the yum-
> priorities plugin. Usually, I enable [base], [updates] and [extras] with a
> prioirity of 1, and [rpmforge] with 10.
>
> I just played around a bit with [elrepo], and here's a configuration I figured
> out. Please correct me if I'm doing something silly here.
>
> [base], [updates], [extras]
> enabled=1
> priority=1
>
> [elrepo]
> enabled=1
> priority=1
>
> [rpmforge]
> enabled=1
> priority=10
>
> This way, I can simply 'yum install nvidia-x11-drv-96xx' for example, without
> having any problem with broken packages.

It is apparent that you know what you are doing. Just make sure
elrepo-testing is not enabled (or not given a high priority).

> On the other hand, a simple 'yum update' (without installing any ELRepo
> driver, that is) wants to update module-init-tools, and I wonder if this is a
> bad thing.

An earlier version of module-init-tools had a bug that was causing a
problem with EL5.5. We provided a patched version of this package as
an interim solution. So, it is perfectly fine to install our
module-init-tools. However, an updated version of module-init-tools
that fixes the original problem has been released (thanks to Jon
Masters of Red Hat). Because it has a newer EVR (
3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5_5.1 ) than rlrepo's ( 3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5.elrepo
), yum is supposed to find the distro version. Can you try again after
'yum clean all' ?

> Cheers from the sunny South of France,
>
> Niki Kovacs

Akemi