On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 10:57 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > 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. Yum and up2date should not behave any differently in this respect. Conflicting packages conflict no matter now they are installed. > 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] "enablerepo", not "enablerepro". > And if one of the alternative repos has it, you may install it from > there in the same way. This is reasonably safe to do; certainly better than leaving the "incompatible" repos enabled by default. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
