Yum repo compatibility

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Colin Charles wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 01:40 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Colin Charles wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:46 +0000, Elvis wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone
> > > > Does anyone know of a definitive compatibility list for yum? There are 
> > > > more and more different repos all over the place, some warning not to 
> > > > mix with repo xyz - this can get confusing and trying to keep a stable, 
> > > > up to date box! Could someone point me to a list? or if there are a lot 
> > > > of replies to this, I could make one.
> > > 
> > > No list, but this is definitely a FAQ
> > 
> > Let me add to this that the incompatability of the 3rd party repositories 
> > has nothing to do with the inability or unwillingness of the 3rd party 
> > packagers (to the contrary). But the unwillingness (and policy) of 
> > fedora.us to not allow for compatibility. Apparently it is too hard to 
> > work with the community.
> 
> And if this is making the FAQ, it should be made clear that:
> 
> Dag, newrpms, atrpms, freshrpms are fully compatible with each other
> (info from http://freshrpms.net/links)

Please add planetccrma, dries, biorpms, jpackage, pyvault, spc, 
kde-redhat, monkeyrpms and flash to that lot.


> Fedora.us, livna, jpackage, flash is yet another compatible lot
> 
> Don't forget to add a link to
> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/RepositoryMixingProblems
> 
> And alas, Dag, and the rest of the repos, I'm sure there's light at the
> end of the tunnel and if we all forget our differences just for a bit,
> the Extras thing will be a bigger, greater, reality
> (no point inter-repo-"fighting", when our goal is to have a great number
> of packages, when we can truly say, "we package the universe")

Let us know when you're ready :)

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