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David Kramer wrote: > Because no one Fedora repository (livna, atrpms, freshrpms..) has > everything I needed, I ended up with some nasty conflicts that took me > close to three hours to resolve. Following the assorted mailing > lists, it's clear there are frequent battles between atrpms and livna > that leave packages compiled with different options, or broken out > differently. I even found packages with dependencies that weren't > even anywhere in the repository. I used to find that frustrating, too, a couple years ago. But a few tweaks over the past couple years made those issues disappear. First, yum-protectbase adds protection to the core repos, so I can tell yum not to upgrade a core package from a third-party repo. Second, I standardized on the rpmforge repo for most third-party add-ons, and disabled other third-party repos by default; then I only enable them on the command-line when I want to install specific packages from them, e.g. sudo yum --enablerepo=atrpms install mplayer Third, I only use Fedora for desktop and laptop installs, and CentOS or RHEL for server installs. -- John Abreau IT Manager Zuken USA 238 Littleton Rd., Suite 100 Westford, MA 01886 T: 978-392-1777 F: 978-692-4725 M: 978-764-8934 E: [hidden email] W: www.zuken.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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