On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:25:00PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mo, den 10.01.2005 schrieb Max Kanat-Alexander um 22:06: > > > The original problem is that you mixed fedora.us packages with ATrpms > > packages. > > > > That doesn't work. You need to uninstall all fedora.us (or pre-extras) > > packages before you use the ATrpms packages, or the other way around. Or > > manually download the ATrpms packages without using yum. > > > > Mixing repos will cause all sorts of problems. > > > > -Max > > Hello Max! > > Exactly that is the downside I see with populating this *example* > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf > > file. People get it, use it as it is and even enable preset repositories > because it is easy to do so. > Don't get me wrong. I like the unofficial Fedora FAQ site much and your > work. But the yum.conf there was never taken as an example file by the > users. > Maybe you should insert there a clear warning about consequences > enabling all repositories in there. And a comment about choosing more > local mirrors (i.e. European users should use European mirrors mainly). > Although I fear commenting text is mostly ignored. Or perhaps two yum.confs, as there are more or less two camps with only a few common repos (namely those that occupy a nice of their own like jpackage)? FWIW there is a set of config files for yum/apt/up2date/smart with a dozen compatible repos distributed in medley-package-config. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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