On 17.07.2007 12:11, Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: > On 17/07/07, Chris Jones <jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I'm not done it myself, but maybe yum-priorities can do the tricks to >>> avoid conflicts from different repo ;-) >> Yes, it can. I'll doing this myself at the moment on my Fedora7 box. >> >> I have a fair number of external repos enabled (livna, freshrpms, atrpms, >> adobe-linux) However, I have only given livna, my 'primary' external repo, >> the same priority as the main fedora ones. This means this repo is favored >> over the others if a package is available from there (even if the others >> have 'newer' ones). I can then use freshrpms and atrpms for the odd few rpms >> livna doesn't provide (openafs for intance from atrpms). >> >> Works very nicely once you have it set up. However, if you are currently in a >> dependency mess, you will need to clean that up first by hand before this >> using approach - Its no magic 'cleanup' bullet... >> > The thing that I don't understand is why is livna's faad2 package has > release 2.0 ( dated Oct 2006 ), while faad2 package from freshrpm is > 2.5 ? There were license changes in 2.5 and it was/is unclear if they are sane, thus livna choose to stick to 2.0 for now. There is a bug about this somewhere in bugzilla.livna.org CU knurd
