Chmouel's Blog » RedHat http://blog.chmouel.com Random and probably boring stuff. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:28:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Yum Force Exclude List http://blog.chmouel.com/2008/03/20/yum-force-exclude-list/ http://blog.chmouel.com/2008/03/20/yum-force-exclude-list/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:36:06 +0000 chmouel http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2008/03/20/yum-force-exclude-list/ Continue reading →]]> While talking with my fellow colleague Darren Birkett about what seems a design limitation
of yum to not be able to force listing the excludes from yum. I had a
shoot to make a yum plugin to force listing the excludes.

Here is how it works :

root@centos5:~> grep exclude /etc/yum.conf
exclude=rpm*
root@centos5:~> yum install rpm-devel
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Loading “changelog” plugin
Loading “chmouel” plugin
Loading “priorities” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do

rpm* is excluded, but if we use the environment variable FORCE_EXCLUDE
it will force it.

 root@centos5:~> FORCE_EXCLUDE=true yum install rpm-devel
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Loading “changelog” plugin
Loading “chmouel” plugin
Loading “priorities” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
–> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
—> Downloading header for rpm-devel to pack into transaction set.
rpm-devel-4.4.2-47.el5.i3 100% |=========================| 17 kB 00:00
—> Package rpm-devel.i386 0:4.4.2-47.el5 set to be updated
–> Running transaction check
[.....]

It will allow you to list the excluded rpm as well :

 root@centos5:~> FORCE_EXCLUDE=true yum list|grep rpm
rpm.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-libs.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-python.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
redhat-rpm-config.noarch 8.0.45-22.el5.centos base
rpm-build.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 base
rpm-devel.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 base
root@centos5:~> yum list|grep rpm
rpm.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-libs.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-python.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
redhat-rpm-config.noarch 8.0.45-22.el5.centos base

See the README.txt in the rpm file to see how to use/install it.

You can download the rpm here and the src.rpm here

]]> http://blog.chmouel.com/2008/03/20/yum-force-exclude-list/feed/ 8 How to get bright LS colors on Redhat with dark background http://blog.chmouel.com/2006/12/20/how-to-get-bright-ls-colors-on-redhat-with-dark-background/ http://blog.chmouel.com/2006/12/20/how-to-get-bright-ls-colors-on-redhat-with-dark-background/#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:52:01 +0000 chmouel http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2006/12/20/how-to-get-bright-ls-colors-on-redhat-with-dark-background/ Continue reading →]]> Something that i haven’t find via goole. By default on RedHat (and derivatives) if you get a dark background the colored ls will be seen really humm bold from a xterm (since i guess there default gnome-terminal has been configured to have a white background ).

The solution is to

cp /etc/DIR_COLORS /etc/DIR_COLORS.xterm

or to redefine your dircolors to get the /etc/DIR_COLORS files instead of /etc/DIR_COLORS.xterm in your shell init configuration.

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