Apt Repositories: Bleeding Means Bleeding!

Wed Oct 20 17:03:46 UTC 2004

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?

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