Livna repo broken?

[yonas Abraham]

On 2/9/07, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> What is wrong with Livna?
>
> For the past three days, when I run smart, I've had recommendations to
> roll back several updates of packages that I originally installed from
> Livna. I have a stop-gap in place, which is to ratchet up the priority
> of my installed-base to be equal to those of Livna, Core, and
> Released-Updates. That lets me take the genuine updates without those
> alarming rollbacks (and in three cases, complete removals).
>
> Two days ago, Livna was in even worse shape, and smart was recommending
> /more than two hundred downgrades/ as a result.
>
> At least I have the packages I need, in their still-current versions.
>
> The downgrade recommendations, furthermore, are all to repos for which I
> set the priority as lower than that for Livna/Updates/Core.
>
> This problem will only go away when the Livna repo maintainers rebuild
> their metadata, or perhaps replace certain versions of multimedia and
> other utilities.
>
> VideoLAN Client, Mplayer (and its gui), and ffmpeg are but three of the
> apps/utilities that this problem affects.
>
> Temlakos

why don't you try to post it in the livna mailing list?