Livna repo broken?

[Temlakos]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.
>   
Hmmm--it sounds as though I might not be using the best mirror to that site.

Any suggestions? I can create mirror lists, after all.

Temlakos