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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:14:29 -0500
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Winnie Lacesso wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Troy Dawson wrote
>> Looks like we didn't get enough testing done, and maybe rrdtool doesn't
>> really need to be in the plain SL release. I have no problem pulling it out
>> of the release and having people just install it from dag or EPEL,
>> whichever they prefer. Since it hasn't gotten into any final release, this
>> isn't that much of a problem, I just need to take it out of the
>> repositories. Does anyone *really* need it in the release? Is there any
>> real reasons why people can't get it from dag and/or EPEL after they are
>> installed?
> 
> Someone answered:
>> If these packages *need* the particular version of rrdtool
>> I suggest that it might not be ready for an SL release.
>> If they only have tight dependencies because the package build
>> put precise version into the package, then those packages
>> ought to be remade.
>>
>> So no, I don't feel that SL needs to have rrdtool.
> 
> Is there ever going to be a solution? Now installing ganglia, the gmetad 
> node never can nightly yum update except by hand, due to rrdtool version 
> clashes in public SL mirrors.
Sorry about that.
They are now *really* taken out.
You might need to do a
   yum clean all

Troy
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