On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 09:14 -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > One suggestion (for the FC4-based linux@duke but also for other people > running FC4 repo mirrors plus local extensions). At least some > repositories, notably livna (which religiously goes on top of FC4 > base+updates+extras and is apparently maintained by a lot of the FC > developers to provide a channel for those otherwise patent-encumbered > packages that we often need and that are actually legal for us to use, > but that RH cannot safely support in the distro itself) provide a lovely > rpm that basically contains their repo entry: > > livna-release-4-0.lvn.2.4.noarch.rpm > > Installing this rpm instantly enables yum to access e.g. nvidia and ATI > drivers all RPM packaged and ready to go and updated per FC kernel, > xmms-mp3, and other tidbits. My suggestion is that this (and perhaps > others like it) is an excellent candidate for e.g. add-ons/duke (or > equivalent elsewhere). So that one can go: > > yum install livna-release-4 The problem is that since the repos contain packages that for some legal reason can't be in the distro directly, the distro also can't have any direct link/connection to said repos. So then you'd need to install a package to add the repo that has the repo packages in it. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050812/67fe8f53/attachment.bin
