[users] RPMForge repo and CentOS 5

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Fabian Arrotin wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I've tried to use the RPMForge repo built for el5 on CentOS 5 (beta) but
> i encountered some problems :
> 
> - some packages exist in rpmforge that need other packages not existing
> anymore in [base] : for example xmms-mp3 exist on RF but xmms in not
> included anymore. So either xmms-mp3 should maybe be removed from RF or
> either xmms could be integrated in RF (my proposal, like it is in FC
> extras) ... or wait for EPEL to provide it ... but due to latest
> discussions , i doubt mixing repositories is a good idea .. :o)

Right. xmms fails to build, the buildlogs have the details. Fixes are 
appreciated.


> - some packages still want to update [base] , as it was before so using
> the yum-protectbase is still a good idea to prevent overwriting of
> [base] packages (an example is libevent-1.3b-1.el5.rf)

Yes, libevent definitely needs to be excluded. I don't know why nfs-utils 
suddenly needs libevent.


> - there are a mismatch like for example xine : when i tried to yum
> install xine , it complained after downloading all the files :
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4/xineplug_inp_mms.so conflicts between
> attempted installs of xine-lib-moles-1.1.4-1.el5.rf and
> xine-lib-1.1.4-1.el5.rf
>
> This is normal because those 2 rpms contain same files : 
> #rpm -qilp xine-lib-1.1.4-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm |grep xineplug_inp_mms.so 
> /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4/xineplug_inp_mms.so
> #rpm -qilp xine-lib-moles-1.1.4-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm |grep
> xineplug_inp_mms.so 
> /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4/xineplug_inp_mms.so

xine-lib-moles is not required, this is a Fedora thing.
If your xine packages requires xine-lib-moles, please do a:

	yum clean all

If you have other examples, please let me know.

Kind regards,
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