On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:21 -0400, colson wrote: > Hello! > I'm a new FC5 user, migrated from Mandriva after its implosion. My > experience with package management comes mainly from their URPMI > system. As such, I'm wondering -- what are the best YUM repositories to > use? From what I've read so far, there are two main groups beyond the > default ones which are mutually exclusive. You can either go with > livna/fedora.us, or you can go with the dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms > group. What are the relative merits of the two, and what would the list > recommend? livna is an adjunct to the "fedora-extras" repo--it is not a replacement for any repo. dag has some stuff that livna doesn't have and it should also be considered an adjunct. The repos you NEED are fedora, fedora-updates and fedora-extras. If you WISH, you can add livna and dag. > > As a side question, I haven't been able to find a package for lilo in > any of the standard yum repositories, and it doesn't appear to be on the > system (it wasn't an option in the installer). Does such a package > exist, and if so, where? Not with FC5. lilo has a lot of limitations that grub dispenses with. FC4 and FC5 only offer grub as a boot loader. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
