[WBEL-users] Issues to yum / WBEL

[Jan-Albert van Ree]

On Saturday 07 August 2004 01:26, Alex Tkachenko wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 10:11, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> > >Infos:
> > >
> > >Yum.conf
> > >[main]
> > >cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> > >debuglevel=2
> > >logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> > >pkgpolicy=newest
> > >distroverpkg=whitebox-release
> > >tolerant=1
> > >exactarch=1
> > >retries=20
> > >failovermethod=roundrobin
> > >gpgcheck=1
> > >exclude=kernel*
> >
> > exclude=kernel* MIGHT have something to do with it......
>
> My bet - it has not.

But it does ;) Uncomment this and it should work fine.

> General question: why keep older packages in the yum repo, if you can't
> install it through yum anyway, only the latest one?

To satisfy dependencies for certain packages and to support people who for 
some reason can't/won't upgrade.
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