CentOS - Feb 2007 - OT rpmforge rpm is not putting Dag repo info in yum.conf

I should change this to OT, as it's not really CentOS related.

I had a post on the list last week asking how the rpmforge rpm was to be 
implemented in yum. Craig White was kind enough to list how his yum.conf is 
appended, I assume after he installed the rpm.

Unfortunately, mine is not appended with these lines. I am running CentOS 3. 
I will add these lines manually, and probably remove the yum.repos.d folder. 
This could be related to the fact that this was an upgraded Tao machine, and 
I had to remove and reinstall the yum rpms as the centosplus repos were also 
not in the conf file, but the main repos for Centos were there.

I just wanted to let people know that installing the rpmforge rpm doesn't 
seem to work all the time. It seems to think that I have a CentOS 4 version 
of yum, so it creates the extra repos folder, adds the mirrors and conf 
files under the repos folder and does not append the yum.conf with the 
repository info. I have probably done something improper along the 
Tao->Centos upgrade path, but I am not sure what.
Thanks for all of the help.

Steve Campbell
campbell at cnpapers.com
Charleston Newspapers

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Steve Campbell wrote:
> I should change this to OT, as it's not really CentOS related.
> 
> I had a post on the list last week asking how the rpmforge rpm was to be
> implemented in yum. Craig White was kind enough to list how his yum.conf is
> appended, I assume after he installed the rpm.
> 
> Unfortunately, mine is not appended with these lines. I am running CentOS
3. I
> will add these lines manually, and probably remove the yum.repos.d folder.
> This could be related to the fact that this was an upgraded Tao machine,
and I
> had to remove and reinstall the yum rpms as the centosplus repos were also
not
> in the conf file, but the main repos for Centos were there.
> 
> I just wanted to let people know that installing the rpmforge rpm
doesn't seem
> to work all the time. It seems to think that I have a CentOS 4 version of
yum,
> so it creates the extra repos folder, adds the mirrors and conf files under
> the repos folder and does not append the yum.conf with the repository info.
I
> have probably done something improper along the Tao->Centos upgrade
path, but
> I am not sure what.
> Thanks for all of the help.
Why not be on topic and use the RPMforge mailinglists ?

Fact is that the yum that comes with RHEL3 does not allow to dump a 
config-file in a directory and I'm not going to rewrite the existing 
yum.conf to enable RPMforge automatically because that is a dangerous 
thing to do.

If you would have been using apt, it would work automatically on all 
distributions.

Kind regards,
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