incompatible packaging between EPEL and DAG/rpmforge
David Mansfield
epel at dm.cobite.com
Tue May 27 16:05:16 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 08:13 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > Any ideas on how to proceed?
>
> I think the official answer would be to not use these two repo's
> together. EPEL really shouldn't be used with any other 3rd party
> repo's.
>
> Obviously this isn't really that realistic. I get around the issue by
> using the yum priorities plugin. I generally set EPEL as the second
> highest priority (after the base repo's) and rpmforge later.
>
> Alternately you can also just specify includepkgs for the packages you
> need from the repo so nothing else gets stepped on.
>
> I think you will likely find the political challenges more difficult to
> overcome than the technical ones if you're looking to get things sync'd
> up and nice between the two repo's. :)
>
Hmm. It says in the FAQ that EPEL 'encourages' compatibility, and to
file a bug in bugzilla. Are you saying that there are a lot of 'deaf
ears' out there?
Specifically, if I solve the problem, how do I feed back the fixes?
This list? fedora-devel? Bugzilla?
I'm basically selfish, and I'm not looking to change the world, just my
part.
David
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