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...

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....