On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:20:43PM -0400, seth vidal alleged: > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 11:09 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:41:35PM -0400, Steven Stromer alleged: > > > I was really hoping to hear more about how others manage the crossover > > > that occurs between packages in Fedora's repos and other repos. If you > > > or anyone else has comments on this, please post. I understand that for > > > > I disable all "non official" repos, leaving main, extras, updates, and > > livna. Then I use '--enablerepo=*' when querying for something I want. > > > > If I find something from a 3rd party repo, I enable that repo but keep > > it limited with an explicit "includepkgs" with only those packages I > > want. And if I'm feeling pedantic, I exclude those packages from the > > official repos. > > > > For example, my girlfriend's FC4 desktop doesn't get anything from dag, > > atrpms, etc. But my FC4 laptop includes ipw2100 from atrpms. > > > > just as a fyi - you can get ipw2100, etc from livna, too. I don't recall why I tool ipw2100 from atrpms. Maybe the livna packages weren't available yet at the time. But that's besides the point, I was just offering an example. -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050908/8890359e/attachment.bin
