CentOS - Oct 2008 - rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

rpmforge has just released a new perl-DBD-mysql for el4 that has an 
obsoletes against perl-DBD-MySQL and the protectbase yum plugin doesn't 
grok obsoletes.  the priorities plugin does.  so if you are having issues 
with this, install the yum-plugin-priorities first, make sure that the 
CentOS-Base repo is priority 1 and the rpmforge repo is priority 2 or 
higher (99 is the default).

also, i'd like to suggest that the priorities plugin be made added to the 
base install and that the centos-base repos be configured with priority 1. 
it looks like c4 has the priority setting, but c5 doesn't and neither have 
the plugin installed.  it seems like this would create a little more 
stable setup for people when they start adding other repos.

> also, i'd like to suggest that the priorities plugin be made added to
the
> base install and that the centos-base repos be configured with priority 1. 
> it looks like c4 has the priority setting, but c5 doesn't and neither
have
> the plugin installed.  it seems like this would create a little more 
> stable setup for people when they start adding other repos.
i forgot to add to my suggestion: make the check_obsoletes option in 
yum-priorities be enabled by default for c5 as it is in c4.

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 10:40 -0700, Joe Pruett wrote:
> rpmforge has just released a new perl-DBD-mysql for el4 that has an 
> obsoletes against perl-DBD-MySQL and the protectbase yum plugin doesn't
> grok obsoletes.  the priorities plugin does.  so if you are having issues 
> with this, install the yum-plugin-priorities first, make sure that the 
> CentOS-Base repo is priority 1 and the rpmforge repo is priority 2 or 
> higher (99 is the default).
> 
> also, i'd like to suggest that the priorities plugin be made added to
the
> base install and that the centos-base repos be configured with priority 1. 
> it looks like c4 has the priority setting, but c5 doesn't and neither
have
> the plugin installed.  it seems like this would create a little more 
> stable setup for people when they start adding other repos.
Anything like this would probably have to be an upstream thing.  But it
would probably be a good idea for people to put this into their
kickstart configs...

	-I