Updates

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Mon Jan 14 14:20:27 UTC 2008


Ed Greshko wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 11:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>  
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 11:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>> FWIW, I had neither livna or freshrpms repos enabled....nor did I 
>>>>> have vlc installed.  So, for the fun of it I did just that and am 
>>>>> currently watching Casino Royale.  Attached is the relevant 
>>>>> portion of the yum install.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> plain text document attachment (typescript.txt)
>>>>> [root at f8 ~]# yum install vlc
>>>>> livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 
>>>>> kB    00:01     fedora                    100% 
>>>>> |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
>>>>> updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3 
>>>>> kB    00:00     freshrpms                 100% 
>>>>> |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00 ETA 
>>>>> freshrpms                 100% |=========================| 2.1 
>>>>> kB    00:00                 
>>>> ----
>>>> time for new glasses...see the last 2 lines I left in
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I don't understand your comment....
>>>
>>> I said I didn't have livna or freshrpms enabled...but then for the 
>>> fun of it I did enable them....
>>>
>>> Please clarify.
>>>     
>> ----
>> obviously you had both enabled when you ran the command. I didn't
>> understand that your predicate was that you didn't have them enabled
>> PRIOR to running the install.
>>   
> What part of  "I had neither livna or freshrpms repos enabled" wasn't 
> clear?
>> it would have been clear if you had run the command...
>>
>> yum --enablerepo=livna,freshrpms install vlc
>>
>>   
> I thought it would have been very clear from the first few lines of 
> the attached file that both were enabled when I ran "yum installed".
>
> [root at f8 ~]# yum install vlc
> livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
> 00:01
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
> 00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    
> 00:00
> freshrpms                 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
> 00:00
> Setting up Install Process
>
> Can't be much clearer than that...IMHO.
>
> But, never mind.....
>
> I think I have managed to recreate Karl's problem and if I can avert 
> my attention away from live coverage of the Australian Open I may have 
> a determination of what is "wrong".
>
>
    Do not hurry Ed. I can wait until April 2008. Then I will install F9 
and try again. But will be interested in what you find!

Karl


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