On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:34:03PM -0400, Temlakos wrote: > All right, everyone: > > What is the best repository mix for FC3 and the upcoming FC4, that will > best serve the goals of: > > 1. Avoiding dependency breaks, package conflicts, and the like, and > > 2. Making available the widest variety of applications by a means other > than going to every one of those programs' home sites, downloading the > rpm, and running > > rpm -Uvh whatever.it.is.basearch.rpm > > Instead, I'd like to be able to type > > yum -y install whatever.it.is > > or > > apt-get install whatever.it.is > > without getting a message of: > > libwhatever in package whatever.it.is.releasevernew conflicts with > libwhatever in package whatever.it.is.releaseverold There is a package called medley-package-config which activates a dozen of cooperating repos (depending on your distro) http://atrpms.net/name/medley-package-config/ See also http://atrpms.net/repos/ Of course not much can be said about FC4 yet. > Or: > > Error: Broken dependency > > I've been mixing dag, at-stable, and extras, and I suspect that I'm > creating more problems than I thought I'd solved. Right now I'm looking > at a red-dot throbbing screamer because clamav is available for update > on at-stable but won't install because of a package conflict with an > earlier package from the fc3 official repo. > > And I haven't been able to use synaptic since atrpms published a new > version of apt. synaptic is in at-testing. > I realize that I might not be able to get this sorted out until FC4 > comes out and I just do yet another clean install. But this time I don't > want to create any more dependency or package conflict problems. Probably not neccessary, all repos I know of have proper upgrade paths from distro to distro. E.g. an apt-get dist-upgrade or yum upgrade may be all you need when FC4 support is available in the repos. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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