Re: [Vserver] CentOS 4(.2) utils RPM/YUM repository [scanned]

From: Roderick A. Anderson <raanders_at_acm.org>
Date: Thu 16 Feb 2006 - 04:10:15 GMT
Message-ID: <43F3FB27.6090509@acm.org>

Veit Wahlich wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 15.02.2006, 15:52 -0800 schrieb Roderick A. Anderson:
>
>>Hold the presses -- just looked and I did find this site. The
>>EXPERIMENTAL part kept me from jumping in. Also I like my little sister.
>
>
> Heh, well, this was initially an apt-only repository, yum support was
> added later. Unfortunately, yum and apt dissent on interpreting
> dependencies, i.e. apt would not upgrade a package that is obsoleted by
> another until this is requested, while yum would replace the obsoleted
> one automatically.
> This is why yum is still marked experimental - I just discovered such a
> problem today with my previous bash-syslog packages.
>
> Also, Angela Merkel became German chancellor some months ago, thus we
> have another clue for the riskiness... ;)

Thanks. This gave me a chuckle.

Obviously we in the U.S. don't keep up on non-US politics enough or I
would have know how old the posting was. Of course no where else seems
to have a Bush so there is no entertainment value in watching others
politics.

Rod

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