Michael Hennebry wrote:
I've been informed that rpmforge and epel do not play well together and that if I use both, epel should have the higher (lower numbered) priority. Alas I had it the other way around. rpmforge messed up my effort to get audacity. I no longer need audacity, but would like to fix the situation before some other problem crops up.
Would fixing the priorities and telling yum to reinstall all the packages from rpmforge be useful? Would it be dangerous?
I wouldn't. You should use *either*, not both. In fact, I believe that some rpmforge packages may even conflict with the base distro. What do you need in rpmforge that isn't available from base, rpmfusion, or epel? The only thing I know of are some kmod packages from elrepo, and I have the elrepo.repo configuration so that either it's not enabled by default, or I only get specific packages for a specific machine from it (like an old NVIDIA card).
-- Michael hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods
Damn, does it have to be a goat? Will a rubber chicken do?
mark "gotta get one for work, y'know"