[users] CentOS Updates

[Nigel Frankcom]

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:58:14 -0400, Phil Schaffner
<Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov> wrote:

>On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 06:11 +0100, Nigel Frankcom wrote:
>...
>> I've now changed it to look like this...
>> 
>> [rpmforge]
>> name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
>> baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$basearch/dag
>> #mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/mirrors-rpmforge
>> mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
>> enabled = 1
>> protect = 0
>> gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
>> gpgcheck = 1
>> 
>> All seems to work fine now. 
>
>Somewhat surprising as you typically want either baseurl or mirrorlist
>but not both.  If baseurl is taking precedence, you are hitting the main
>server and not taking advantage of the mirrorlist (or fastestmirror if
>using that plugin).  I presume you are changing 4 to 5 for your CentOS-5
>machines.  My definition, which works for both 4.5 and 5 is:
>
># Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - dag
># URL: http://rpmforge.net/
>[rpmforge]
>name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever for $basearch - RPMforge.net - dag
>#baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
>mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/mirrors-rpmforge
>#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
>enabled=1
>protect=0
>#gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
>gpgkey = http://apt.sw.be/rpmforge/persona/dag/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
>gpgcheck=1
>priority=4
>
>Unfortunately mirrorlist seems not to understand &releasever so if using
>local mirrorlist files they are unique to the release.
>

Thanks for the heads up. I've mod'd accordingly.

Kind regards

Nigel