Yum in EPEL [Was: packages that conflict with centos?]

Jeff Sheltren sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu
Tue Aug 7 17:07:38 UTC 2007


On Aug 6, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Michael Stahnke wrote:
>
> The issue is the package itself. EPEL has no way of shipping a 100%
> working version of YUM on RHEL 4.  So, I still say we place something
> in yum.conf to let the RHEL user know that YUM won't "just work" until
> they help it out some.

I'm pretty happy with doing something like this.  Of course, it'll be  
pretty clear that it doesn't work when they try to use it and it  
doesn't work ;)

Maybe a small blurb on the wiki explaining yum within EPEL would help  
as well?

-Jeff




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