[tools] mrepo 0.86 rpm for rpmforge

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Bryan Washer wrote:

>  I have installed the 0.86 rpm to update my system and it made it a lot
> easier to get running but there are a few things I wanted to point
> out...
>
> There is a requirement for pyOpenSSL that the rpm does not check
> for...

Right, the pyOpenSSL requirement I forgot about. I will add it for a 
future package.

BTW now that we ship our own version of the RHN/up2date libraries we can 
start modifying them to remove some of the old up2date related 
config-files and make it even more easy to set it up.

> also when I activated the centos repository it seem to hang trying
> to get files and just looping over and over again on the same files...I
> have had this issue with both the extras and centosplus repos.

If you could debug this that would be useful.


> As a side note...I have activated mirroring your repo for the first time
> as well and I noticed that it does not pull just the most recent
> versions but it pulls 4-5 versions of most rpms....is this normal?

I keep more than one version of a package. Sometimes deliberately, but I 
do need to clean up a lot of them :-/ Unfortunately this is not automated 
(and hard to automate).

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