On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:07:04PM +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2008 13:24, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > <rant> > > > ATrpms has way too obsolete installation instructions (some others too > > > --- Dries comes to mind) to be seriously considered as a reliable > > > repository. For example, Livna has a .rpm file for each Fedora distro > > > that I just have to install and it is ready to go. On ATrpms website I > > > was told to manually edit the .repo files according to the template given > > > for Fedora 7 (!!!), changing some parameters to suit my own distro > > > (???)... Wtf? Did I miss the right instructions page? This is just > > > user-unfriendly, to say the least. But I may even try it out if someone > > > just gives me the exact contents of the appropriate .repo file that works > > > with CentOS 5.2, and if ATrpms has all these packages that I need, > > > updated more often than their website... </rant> > > > > <rantback> > > Try http://atrpms.net/name/atrpms-package-config/ > > </rantback> > > <unrant> > Oh, well, that is a nice surprise! Apologies for the rant. :-) > </unrant> > > Btw, what is medley? An old attempt to provide a package that would enable many 3rd party repos. The attempt failed because the repos would not report new/old repo support and the medley was getting out of date. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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