On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 04:44 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Temlakos wrote: > > > The big issue is with the RPMForge repo family (FreshRPMS, Dag, Dries, > > and AT-stable/good/testing/bleeding). They have a wider variety of > > stuff, but they also have stuff that conflicts with the stuff in extras > > and livna. Their relations with the keepers of "extras" have been broken > > for years. So then you have to make a choice between the two > > families--and that might not be easy! Extras has grown by leaps and > > bounds--but if you want your "mythtv", you need Axel's at-stable at > > least, and that could break some of the extras packages. > I'd have thought the simplest (and safest) thing to do > was to add these repositories to /etc/yum.repos.d/ > but with "enabled=0". > Then if you want to install a particular program not in the standard repos > you can say eg "yum --enablerepo=livna install <whatever>". > exactly > I got in quite a confused state by running "yum update" > with fedora-devel enabled. > This installed a version of python which caused trouble all over the place. > devel is well..... devel. It is not the most stable packages and should not be enabled unless you are testing. > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland >
