[TriLUG] Yum repositories

[Owen Berry]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 02:58:11PM -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 12:22 -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > On 8/12/05, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any compatability experience with using the Dag
> > > (http://dag.wieers.com/), livna (http://rpm.livna.org/) and Fedora
> > > extras (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras) repositories for Fedora
> > > RPMs? I've been using livna and fedora.us (now Fedora Extras) for a
> > > while, but I'm looking for some packages for FC3 that are only on Dag's
> > > repository.
> > > 
> > > According to the Dag FAQ, the livna and fedora.us ones are not
> > > compatible with his, so I would probably have to remove those packages
> > > and reinstall them. Seems like a lot of work, which I don't want to have
> > > to repeat.
> > >
> > 
> > Back when I was running RH9, I was using the Fedora legacy repo, and
> > tried to use the dag repos as well.  The problem is that Fedora and
> > DAG (as well as others) don't see eye to eye on version numbering. I
> > had some problems with some dependency packages being replaced with
> > back level versions. IIRC these came from the Fedora repos because
> > they SEEMED to be newer than those in the DAG repo.
> > 
> > I never did figure out how to fix this.  It's one form of dependency hell.
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> <disclaimer>
> I'm a Fedora Extras volunteer, so please be aware of my bias.  ;-)
> </disclaimer>
> 
> I do install packages from DAG, Livna, FreshRPMs, etc. especially for
> things like mplayer, xmms*, xine, macromedia flash, etc.
> 
> To avoid problems, I only run a system-wide 'yum update' against the
> "official" Fedora and Fedora Extras repos.  The idea is to minimize the
> chances of installing a bunch of unnecessary and potentially conflicting
> RPMs:
> 
>  1) install the yum conf file(s) for the repo(s) you want to use in 
>     /etc/yum.repos.d/ and *temporarily* mark them as enabled
> 
>  2) "rpm --import ${URL_FOR_THE_KEY}" for each of the above repos
> 
>  3) yum install the packages you want
> 
>  4) disable the repos from (1) before doing a system-wide yum update
> 
> This usually works nicely for me because all the packages are in
> addition to the ones provided by Fedora and Fedora Extras -- they don't
> replace generally don't conflict with anything.
> 
> 
> So, if anyone has software that they would like to maintain in Fedora
> Extras, please see:
> 
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras
> 
> were the process for becoming an FE maintainer is documented.  And, if
> you contact me off-list, I'll do everything I can to help fellow
> TriLUG-ers get started including sponsorship, package reviews, etc.
> 
> - Ed "in FE-pimp-mode" Hill  ;-)
> 

Sounds like a reasonable strategy. Thanks for the advice.

-- Owen