Repository recommendations for FC3 and FC4

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:34:03PM -0400, Temlakos wrote:
> All right, everyone:
> 
> What is the best repository mix for FC3 and the upcoming FC4, that will 
> best serve the goals of:
> 
> 1.	Avoiding dependency breaks, package conflicts, and the like, and
> 
> 2.	Making available the widest variety of applications by a means other 
> than going to every one of those programs' home sites, downloading the 
> rpm, and running
> 
> rpm -Uvh whatever.it.is.basearch.rpm
> 
> Instead, I'd like to be able to type
> 
> yum -y install whatever.it.is
> 
> or
> 
> apt-get install whatever.it.is
> 
> without getting a message of:
> 
> libwhatever in package whatever.it.is.releasevernew conflicts with 
> libwhatever in package whatever.it.is.releaseverold

There is a package called medley-package-config which activates a
dozen of cooperating repos (depending on your distro)

	 http://atrpms.net/name/medley-package-config/

See also

	 http://atrpms.net/repos/

Of course not much can be said about FC4 yet.      

> Or:
> 
> Error: Broken dependency
> 
> I've been mixing dag, at-stable, and extras, and I suspect that I'm 
> creating more problems than I thought I'd solved. Right now I'm looking 
> at a red-dot throbbing screamer because clamav is available for update 
> on at-stable but won't install because of a package conflict with an 
> earlier package from the fc3 official repo.
> 
> And I haven't been able to use synaptic since atrpms published a new 
> version of apt.

synaptic is in at-testing.

> I realize that I might not be able to get this sorted out until FC4 
> comes out and I just do yet another clean install. But this time I don't 
> want to create any more dependency or package conflict problems.

Probably not neccessary, all repos I know of have proper upgrade paths
from distro to distro. E.g. an apt-get dist-upgrade or yum upgrade may
be all you need when FC4 support is available in the repos.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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