Yum repros wanted

Sean O Sullivan seanos at netsoc.itcarlow.ie
Fri Jun 24 14:16:03 UTC 2005


Temlakos wrote:
> Sean O Sullivan wrote:
> 
>> The more repo's you want, the more conflicts and dependancy issues you 
>> will have - it is not a good idea to add every repo you can find.
>>
>> Personally, base/updated-released/extras, then dag and freshrpms are 
>> very reliable I find. atrpms i usually fine, although wouldn't use for 
>> a server. Other than that wouldn't touch many others - especially not 
>> livna ( http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#D )
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sean
>>
> 
> Are you sure about that? The way I heard it, livna and extras were part 
> of the same mold. Now I'll let Dag and Axel speak for themselves, but 
> the impression I got from following the link you gave is that they 
> wouldn't even want you to use extras, just because the extras 
> maintainers won't "play nice" with them.

Well for compatibility I decided to take Livna out anyway, I rarely have 
any issues with what I mensioned, if any arise, it is due to atrpms 
(however this is rare, and atrpms are also very good, I am in no way 
critising them).

> Back to your main point: if I were still using yum or apt, I'd agree 
> with you--in which case I wouldn't use anything beyond base, 
> updates-released, extras, and livna, and if I wanted anything from any 
> other repo I'd wget it and run rpm -Uvh on it. But with the smart 
> package manager, I can set priorities on the various repos to avoid such 
> conflicts. Smart will even /repair/ any conflicts that it finds when I 
> first install it. (Edit->Fix All Problems...)

Yes I tried smart, and was very impressed very quickily.
However, I recall I had some problem updating /something/ and for that 
reason I reverted back to yum ... cannot remember what it was, however I 
do intend to keep an eye on smart, and will probably go back to it at 
some point.

Regards,

Sean




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