On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 02:16 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 14 January 2008 01:25, Craig White wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 17:18 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > > > >> Sorry Craig there are MANY f7 rpms in f8. It is normal and thought > > > >> you would know. > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > If you are referring to the .fc7 designation, yes, I am quite aware of > > > > that. > > > > > > > > I forgot that you are inclined to bite the hand feeding you. > > > > > > > > Good luck > > > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > I wanted you to know that f7 rpm's are normal on f8. I am seeing > > > something odd. > > > > > > > > > [root@localhost ~]# yum install vlc > > > Setting up Install Process > > > Parsing package install arguments > > > Resolving Dependencies > > > > > > > > > The yum is not looking for a repo to get this mess. How can this be? I > > > have removed all livna repos but it does not even use them. > > > > ---- > > Sure but you don't bother to do what you were asked to do. > > > > My speculation, you have vlc and packages from some other repository, > > not livna. freshrpms? If you had listed the files, we probably could > > figure it out. > > > > enable freshrpms repository again and try to update > > > > Craig > > Hi Craig. I just suggested enabling the freshrpms repo again ( that's on Karls > pulseaudio thread) and trying an install of VLC, especially as x264 on my F8 > with freshrpms enabled is showing as being maintained by Matthias Saou > (freshrpms), and VLC is working fine. > > The problem is that 3rd party repo's don't work well together. The intention > of the repo maintainers is that there should be consistency of the package > versions available, but this doesn't seem to work out in reality, resulting > in conflicts. > > Karls obviously experiencing this. I thought he'd got his VLC from Livna, but > maybe not due to the problems he's having. ---- feel free to step in. he has yet to do what I asked him to do so it's clear that I'm not going to be of much use. Craig
