Apt Repositories: Bleeding Means Bleeding!

Temlakos temlakos at comcast.net
Wed Oct 20 17:43:05 UTC 2004


All I know is that I pulled in an upgrade that, as far as I knew, had
only those packages in it, and then I got fouled up with X. Everything
seems stable now--I reinstalled everything, then fetched the updates
from fedora's official repositories. *Those* I trust.

Temlakos


On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 13:03, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:31:02 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
> 
> > Everyone:
> > 
> > Be careful what repositories you subscribe to! Recently I "upgraded"
> > glib2 and gtk2 from a repo in the UK,
> 
> Presumably, those were the official Fedora Core Updates FEDORA-2004-341
> and FEDORA-2004-342, and you just used a mirror server in the UK.
> 
> > whose URL escapes me at the
> > moment. It totally mangled my X configuration and I was forced to nuke
> > my installation and start over.
> 
> glib2 and gtk2 don't touch your X configuration. Can you be more
> specific, please?
> 
> -- 
> Fedora Core release 2.92 (FC3 Test 3) - Linux 2.6.8-1.541
> loadavg: 0.11 0.15 0.24




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