Choosing YUM Repositories

[Peter Boy]

Am Samstag, den 06.08.2005, 10:18 +0100 schrieb Paul Howarth:
> > Especially with atrpms and sometimes with dag they update some fedora
> > core packages which is a no-no according to the extra's policy. If you
> > use yum to update your system (and have dag and atrpms activated) it is
> > not a problem in everyday life (it is in theory). If you use up2date,
> > there may arise a problem sometimes.
> 
> Yum and up2date should not behave any differently in this respect.
> Conflicting packages conflict no matter now they are installed.

*Should* not, yes. Up2date doesn't know about the other repos and
*sometimes* (not regularly) seems to be confused by those packages and
does not update other packages it should update.
 
> > If you wich to use the safe way, you should configure the other
> > repositories, but don't activate them by default (enabled=0 in the repo
> > file). If you look for a specific solftware package you may
> > 
> >   yum --enablerepro=[deactiveRepoName] search [myNeededSoftware]
> 
> "enablerepo", not "enablerepro".

ups, typo  :-)



Peter