On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Colin Charles wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 01:40 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Colin Charles wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:46 +0000, Elvis wrote: > > > > Hello everyone > > > > Does anyone know of a definitive compatibility list for yum? There are > > > > more and more different repos all over the place, some warning not to > > > > mix with repo xyz - this can get confusing and trying to keep a stable, > > > > up to date box! Could someone point me to a list? or if there are a lot > > > > of replies to this, I could make one. > > > > > > No list, but this is definitely a FAQ > > > > Let me add to this that the incompatability of the 3rd party repositories > > has nothing to do with the inability or unwillingness of the 3rd party > > packagers (to the contrary). But the unwillingness (and policy) of > > fedora.us to not allow for compatibility. Apparently it is too hard to > > work with the community. > > And if this is making the FAQ, it should be made clear that: > > Dag, newrpms, atrpms, freshrpms are fully compatible with each other > (info from http://freshrpms.net/links) Please add planetccrma, dries, biorpms, jpackage, pyvault, spc, kde-redhat, monkeyrpms and flash to that lot. > Fedora.us, livna, jpackage, flash is yet another compatible lot > > Don't forget to add a link to > http://www.fedora.us/wiki/RepositoryMixingProblems > > And alas, Dag, and the rest of the repos, I'm sure there's light at the > end of the tunnel and if we all forget our differences just for a bit, > the Extras thing will be a bigger, greater, reality > (no point inter-repo-"fighting", when our goal is to have a great number > of packages, when we can truly say, "we package the universe") Let us know when you're ready :) -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
