Livna repo broken?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 09:28 -0500, Temlakos 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
> 
First  of all smart does not use the original livna.repo. It forces you
to create a livna channel. This breaks the structure of the livna.repo
because smart, as far as I can see, has the same bug as yumex. It cannot
have a channel with multiple baseurls.
At least that is what I found. So in my opinion it is smart that is to
blame not livna.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>