Re: Livna repo broken?

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On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:18 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 09:28 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> >   
> >> Everyone:
> >>
> >> What is wrong with Livna?
> >>
> >> For the past three days, when I run smart, I've had recommendations to 
> >> roll back several updates of packages that I originally installed from 
> >> Livna. I have a stop-gap in place, which is to ratchet up the priority 
> >> of my installed-base to be equal to those of Livna, Core, and 
> >> Released-Updates. That lets me take the genuine updates without those 
> >> alarming rollbacks (and in three cases, complete removals).
> >>
> >> Two days ago, Livna was in even worse shape, and smart was recommending 
> >> /more than two hundred downgrades/ as a result.
> >>
> >> At least I have the packages I need, in their still-current versions.
> >>
> >> The downgrade recommendations, furthermore, are all to repos for which I 
> >> set the priority as lower than that for Livna/Updates/Core.
> >>
> >> This problem will only go away when the Livna repo maintainers rebuild 
> >> their metadata, or perhaps replace certain versions of multimedia and 
> >> other utilities.
> >>
> >> VideoLAN Client, Mplayer (and its gui), and ffmpeg are but three of the 
> >> apps/utilities that this problem affects.
> >>
> >> Temlakos
> >>
> >>     
> > First  of all smart does not use the original livna.repo. It forces you
> > to create a livna channel. This breaks the structure of the livna.repo
> > because smart, as far as I can see, has the same bug as yumex. It cannot
> > have a channel with multiple baseurls.
> > At least that is what I found. So in my opinion it is smart that is to
> > blame not livna.
> >   
> Hmmm--it sounds as though I might not be using the best mirror to that site.
> 
> Any suggestions? I can create mirror lists, after all.
> 
> Temlakos
mirrotlists will work it believe.

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Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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