Updates

[Karl Larsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 02:16 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
>   
>> On Monday 14 January 2008 01:25, Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 17:18 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>       
>>>>>>     Sorry Craig there are MANY f7 rpms in f8. It is normal and thought
>>>>>> you would know.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> ----
>>>>> If you are referring to the .fc7 designation, yes, I am quite aware of
>>>>> that.
>>>>>
>>>>> I forgot that you are inclined to bite the hand feeding you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good luck
>>>>>
>>>>> Craig
>>>>>           
>>>>     I wanted you to know that f7 rpm's are normal on f8. I am seeing
>>>> something odd.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [root at localhost ~]# yum install vlc
>>>> Setting up Install Process
>>>> Parsing package install arguments
>>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The yum is not looking for a repo to get this mess. How can this be? I
>>>> have removed all livna repos but it does not even use them.
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> Sure but you don't bother to do what you were asked to do.
>>>
>>> My speculation, you have vlc and packages from some other repository,
>>> not livna. freshrpms? If you had listed the files, we probably could
>>> figure it out.
>>>
>>> enable freshrpms repository again and try to update
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>       
>> Hi Craig. I just suggested enabling the freshrpms repo again ( that's on Karls 
>> pulseaudio thread) and trying an install of VLC, especially as x264 on my F8 
>> with freshrpms enabled is showing as being maintained by Matthias Saou 
>> (freshrpms), and VLC is working fine.
>>
>> The problem is that 3rd party repo's don't work well together. The intention 
>> of the repo maintainers is that there should be consistency of the package 
>> versions available, but this doesn't seem to work out in reality, resulting 
>> in conflicts.
>>
>> Karls obviously experiencing this. I thought he'd got his VLC from Livna, but 
>> maybe not due to the problems he's having.
>>     
> ----
> feel free to step in.
>
> he has yet to do what I asked him to do so it's clear that I'm not going
> to be of much use.
>
> Craig
>
>   
    Excuse me Craig, what did you ask me to do? I will do it asap!

Karl


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