Problem with faad2 with F7

[Jesus Jr M Salvo]

On 17/07/07, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > I'm not done it myself, but maybe yum-priorities can do the tricks to
> > avoid conflicts from different repo ;-)
>
> Yes, it can. I'll doing this myself at the moment on my Fedora7 box.
>
> I have a fair number of external repos enabled (livna, freshrpms, atrpms,
> adobe-linux) However, I have only given livna, my 'primary' external repo,
> the same priority as the main fedora ones. This means this repo is favored
> over the others if a package is available from there (even if the others
> have 'newer' ones). I can then use freshrpms and atrpms for the odd few rpms
> livna doesn't provide (openafs for intance from atrpms).
>
> Works very nicely once you have it set up. However, if you are currently in a
> dependency mess, you will need to clean that up first by hand before this
> using approach - Its no magic 'cleanup' bullet...
>
> Chris
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The thing that I don't understand is why is livna's faad2 package has
release 2.0 ( dated Oct 2006 ), while faad2 package from freshrpm is
2.5 ?

If I remove faad-2.5 from freshrpm to install faad-2.0 from livna, I
may break other apps that depend on faad-2.5.

John