BUG: clamav packages badly broken

Florin Andrei florin at andrei.myip.org
Sun Dec 30 04:25:44 UTC 2007


Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, lonely wolf wrote:
> 
>> On 12/29/2007 09:34 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
>>
>>> Back to using Dag's repo - setup all sorts of yum exceptions, so that the
>>> broken EPEL packages do not interfere with the good packages provided by
>>> Dag. Welcome to the repo hell. :-(
>> That't exactly what yum-priorities has been written for. Just setup rpmforge
>> with a bigger priority over epel and you are done.
> 
> Last time such a discussion popped up and I simply stated that RPMforge
> and EPEL are not compatible and you are better off using only one of both
> I was told to stop spreading FUD (by Rex Dieter).
> 
> Apparently it stopped being FUD today ?

"FUD" is probably an exaggeration.

yum-priorities is pretty damn ugly, and probably requires constant 
fiddling. But it may just work. No, I don't like it at all. But when 
it's the only solution... (shrug)

-- 
Florin Andrei

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