From: Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
I don't know if I would call it FUD ... BUT, if repos are going to work together, they have to use consistent names for packages, so that versioning will work properly.
Agreed. Red Hat really wants to see this with the greater Fedora Project, but I there is a long way to go and a lot of concessions still to be made. I don't blame anyone for the lack of consolidation.
Just for the record, using the Fedora Core library on CentOS-4 can be problematic (and even DAGs repo, for that matter) ... in that both can overwrite base CentOS libraries.
I find as long as I align the versions correctly, and _only_ tap Fedora Extras and Livna.ORG (and _not_ Fedora Core), I haven't had an issue.
I would highly recommend that you use a includepkg= in your yum configuration for any external repo (even things like centosplus).
I am aware of such details. In many cases, I'm maintaining my own, internal repositories anyway for multiple systems.
Karanbir Singh is working on a rebuild of FC Extras that uses functionality already in CentOS-4 and doesn't upgrade any packages (unless required) that are part of the base centos. Since FC is not CentOS, and there are differences in some libraries, I would recommend Karanbir's repo over FC Extras (for CentOS-4). I don't have the address of this site handy right now...I'm sure someone does.
One thing I'm tiring of is the inconsistency between FC/RHL and RHEL. It's one thing that is looking better about SL and NLx every day. I'm waiting to see what Novell does with SL 10.x and NLx 10.
Just be careful when using any external repo, as it can replace things you don't want.
Exactly.
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