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. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
