Livna repo broken?

[Temlakos]

yonas Abraham wrote:
> 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?
>
I can't seem to find it, nor any way to create a new account.

The "ffmpeg" rebuild project is noted. That seems to be at the heart of 
the current issues.

Temlakos