Re: Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

["Petr \"Qaxi\" Klíma" <qaxi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Diversity adds a lot of value. If EPEL will be only repo nobody on RHEL workstation can see/listen MP3, WMA, DVD playing, because of interesting US software patent and millenium act law.

That's not what I meant.  Obviously we need additional packages in other repositories and that will be true as long as there is any policy that might exclude any contribution to a centrally managed repository.  The question is, why do we need/want different versions of the same-named packages, or packages that provide different versions of the same files that can overwrite each other based on conditions we can't control? There probably is a good reason to want this - I just can't think of it right now.

That's easy:

(this is example, has no reflection to current state ...)

EPEL  provides xmms-1.2.10-1.i586.rpm    - but without MP3, WMA, AAC ...
DAG   provides xmms-1.2.9-1.rf.i586.rpm  - with all those beasts
ATRPM provides xmms-1.2.10-1.at.i586.rpm - with all those beasts

Which you installs? Who knows, probably EPEL ...

Solution?

Repo priorities and includes

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
priority=1

# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 4 - dag
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge-CO]
name = RPMforge.net-EL 4
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/mirrors-rpmforge
gpgkey = http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
gpgcheck = 1
enabled = 0
priority=80
includepkgs=xmms*


[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/$basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
priority=99
# this is yust for sure priprities should do it better
exclude=xmms*



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