Temlakos wrote:
I've been mixing dag, at-stable, and extras, and I suspect that I'm creating more problems than I thought I'd solved.
Use apt-get/synaptic or smart(rpm) when you mix repositories, because you can weigh the different sources.
For this box my apt-get preferences are 998 for core/os/updates and 996 for third party repositories, so they cannot replace core/os/update packages automatically.
Axel Thimm's at-repository is very special so I set it 995 for this box, because it's either his mplayer or the one from rpmforge (or a bit of work to figure out dependencies). I you prefer Axel's repository, you can set him to 996 and those of rpmforge to 995. It's up to you.
Although there is some discussion about extra/livna vs. rpmforge and at, I have never experienced real dependency problems with this setting.
So here is my /etc/apt/preferences:
Explanation: base os Package: * Pin: release c=os Pin-Priority: 998
Explanation: base os Package: * Pin: release c=core Pin-Priority: 998
Explanation: updates Package: * Pin: release c=updates Pin-Priority: 998
Explanation: Fedora Extras Package: * Pin: release c=extras Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: Livna Package: * Pin: release c=stable Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: ATrpms, Axel Thimm's repository Package: * Pin: release c=at-stable Pin-Priority: 995
Explanation: FreshRPMS, Matthias Saou's repository Package: * Pin: release c=freshrpms Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: NewRPMS, Rudolf (Che) Kastl's repository Package: * Pin: release c=newrpms Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: Dag Wieers' repository Package: * Pin: release c=dag Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: PlanetCCRMA Package: * Pin: release c=planetccrma Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: JPackage Package: * Pin: release o=http://www.jpackage.org/ Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: dries Package: * Pin: release c=dries Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: BIOrpms Package: * Pin: release c=biorpms Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: BIOrpms Package: * Pin: release c=biorpms-nonfree Pin-Priority: 996
Explanation: KSPEI Package: * Pin: release c=kspei Pin-Priority: 996
-- Regards, Markus Huber
