Am Samstag, den 06.08.2005, 10:18 +0100 schrieb Paul Howarth: > > 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. *Should* not, yes. Up2date doesn't know about the other repos and *sometimes* (not regularly) seems to be confused by those packages and does not update other packages it should update. > > 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". ups, typo :-) Peter
