RedHat

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 ...

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. ...