Am Freitag, den 05.08.2005, 18:46 -1000 schrieb Ping-Wu Zhang: > I have heard that it is not a good idea to mix YUM repositories > belonging to different "camps". Apparently, there are two camps which > should not be commingled: > > 1. The default Fedora extra + Livna > 2. Everyone else (including dag, Freshrpms, etc.) Mixing these repositories is mostly not a ig issue. You may read http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#D for more info. Especially with atrpms and sometimes with dag they update some fedora core packages which is a no-no according to the extra's policy. If you use yum to update your system (and have dag and atrpms activated) it is not a problem in everyday life (it is in theory). If you use up2date, there may arise a problem sometimes. If you wich to use the safe way, you should configure the other repositories, but don't activate them by default (enabled=0 in the repo file). If you look for a specific solftware package you may yum --enablerepro=[deactiveRepoName] search [myNeededSoftware] And if one of the alternative repos has it, you may install it from there in the same way. Peter
