Livna repo broken - SOLVED

[Temlakos]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:18 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>> 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
>>     
> mirrotlists will work it believe.
>
>   
You mean "mirrorlists," of course.

Since I received your message, I followed a tip to visit Livna's own 
site. They have an RPM called livna-release-6.rpm. I installed that and 
then ran the script that it installed in /usr/share/doc. That script 
installed all of the channels and mirrors I needed.

The Livna problem is now resolved.

I have some other minor issues with smart--it seems to have forgotten to 
enforce global priorities.

Temlakos