That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem
Lamar Owen
lowen at pari.edu
Sun Jan 20 03:29:44 UTC 2008
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > no, that clearly won't stop some people from screwing things up, but
> > as long as people continue to build incompatible repos, i don't see
> > that there's any perfect solution.
>
> Ummm, people didn't 'build incompatible repos'.
Sure they did. After all, fedora.us was a third party repo once, and if you
happen to have ATrpms and RPMforge enabled at the same time as KDE-RedHat and
PlanetCCRMA, on a fedora prior to the Core-Extras merger, with Fedora Extras
disabled, you will still get issues where these repos have the same package
that is packaged differently.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. And had to work out kinks in a clamAV
installation because of it....nothing like having an apt-get update; apt-get
upgrade bring in a completely differently packaged ClamAV every other upgrade
(one repo would bump the version, then the other would catch up....). And
this was on CentOS 4, no Fedora in sight.
This situation after the Core-Extras merger is better than before, at least
from my point of view. The other repos pretty much have to be compatible
with the whole Fedora, and that did help some, at least from my vantage point
(the packagers, I'm sure, had a different vantage point, of course).
--
Lamar Owen
www.pari.edu
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