From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at 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. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org