Best YUM configuration?

[Dan]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:21 -0400, colson wrote:
>   
>> Hello!
>>   I'm a new FC5 user, migrated from Mandriva after its implosion.  My 
>> experience with package management comes mainly from their URPMI 
>> system.  As such, I'm wondering -- what are the best YUM repositories to 
>> use?  From what I've read so far, there are two main groups beyond the 
>> default ones which are mutually exclusive.  You can either go with 
>> livna/fedora.us, or you can go with the dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms 
>> group.  What are the relative merits of the two, and what would the list 
>> recommend?
>>     
>
> livna is an adjunct to the "fedora-extras" repo--it is not a replacement
> for any repo.  dag has some stuff that livna doesn't have and it should
> also be considered an adjunct.
>
> The repos you NEED are fedora, fedora-updates and fedora-extras.  If you
> WISH, you can add livna and dag.
>
>   
livna _or_ dag. :) You can add both but make sure they are not both 
enabled by default.
I've found all the packages I need from Livna, Currently, dag does not 
have an FC5 repo, but you can use dries and freshrpms instead. There is 
no consensus on which to use, basically whichever has what you need, or 
whichever you prefer.
>> As a side question, I haven't been able to find a package for lilo in 
>> any of the standard yum repositories, and it doesn't appear to be on the 
>> system (it wasn't an option in the installer).  Does such a package 
>> exist, and if so, where?
>>     
>
> Not with FC5.  lilo has a lot of limitations that grub dispenses with.
> FC4 and FC5 only offer grub as a boot loader.
>
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