On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 10:28 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Craig White wrote: > > I think that you have every reason to expect dries/matthias/dag/aka > > rpmforge packages to be fully compatible with fedora > > core/extras/updates packages. There is overlap between the rpmforge > > packages and livna and typically the the rpmforge packages are newer > > than the livna packages which can sometimes present a problem when > > you have libraries from livna installed as opposed to coming from > > extras and a newer version of the requiring package in an rpmforge > > repo. > > That does seem reasonable and likely works in most cases. I used > FreshRPMS on one of my FC4 systems and it worked well. I'm not sure > where the problem arose in Bob's case, though it appears to be a case > of one of the rpmforge repos providing a package that is already in > extras. ---- sure - sometimes that needs to be done though... If say freshrpms has the latest version of widget and widget requires a more recent version of doodadlibs than is available from extras, they don't have much choice besides providing a higher numbered version of doodadlibs. Craig
