[CentOS] Karanbir CentOS REPO - Breakability?

Thu Mar 9 17:38:02 UTC 2006
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > 
> > > Jim Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > > - it proceeded to install apt that nuked the dag and centos list
> > > > files. 
> > > Who is this "it" you refer to ? the repository will not push apps down
> > > your
> > > way. Also, since were talking about it - apt is deprecated and users are
> > > actively encouraged to move to either yum or smartpm.
> > 
> > I don't know why it would do that though. My most recent apt package does
> > not include a configuration for my repo. One should install the
> > rpmforge-release package to have that. So why would another apt package
> > remove my configuration ?
> > 
> > As a side-note, I'm happy to include whatever package that drove you (Jim)
> > to Fedora Extras (rebuild) in the first place. And if you'd like to maintain
> > it, more karma to you :-)
> 
> dag, I've done some work on how to ensure rpmforge.net rpms and the ones from
> centos.karan.org can work together - even if we want to merge in stuff onto
> one side, that might be an option I am happy to take and maintain the specs.
> But at the moment 4.3 needs working on, once that is done and released, we can
> revisit the situation.

Sure. Take your time :)


> however, no matter who is maintaining the packages and where - the situation
> that he ( jim ) had will still come up.

:)

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