RHEL/CentOS Repository clues

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:59 -0500, vodhner at cox.net wrote:
> Thanks to everybody who replied on this, and
> especially for the examples.
> 
> Craig wrote:
> > php-mysql is packaged as part of CentOS base
> > repository and thus if 'yum install php-mysql'
> > doesn't work...you don't have a working setup.
> 
> I finally got php-mysql, but only after I enabled
> the CentOS "Plus" channel.  Go figure . . .
> 
> Next challenge was php-jpgraph, on the "dag" repo.
> When I did "yum install" it failed, but I noticed
> this message:
> 
>   Reducing Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat
>   Enterprise Linux to included packages only
> 
> So I compared my dag.repo file with Craig's, and
> it had an "includepkgs" list left over from when
> I originally set up that repo for a specific
> application.  I removed that, and everything works.
> 
> Is there a query to tell where I got each item?
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not really but repos such as dag/rpmforge put their repo 'rf'
designation in the rpm name such as...
# rpm -q perl-Net-SSLeay
perl-Net-SSLeay-1.25-3.2.el4.rf

Craig