On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 09:11 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:05:16PM -0400, David Mansfield wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 08:13 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > > Any ideas on how to proceed? > > > > > > I think the official answer would be to not use these two repo's > > > together. EPEL really shouldn't be used with any other 3rd party > > > repo's. > > > > > > Obviously this isn't really that realistic. I get around the issue by > > > using the yum priorities plugin. I generally set EPEL as the second > > > highest priority (after the base repo's) and rpmforge later. > > > > > > Alternately you can also just specify includepkgs for the packages you > > > need from the repo so nothing else gets stepped on. > > > > > > I think you will likely find the political challenges more difficult to > > > overcome than the technical ones if you're looking to get things sync'd > > > up and nice between the two repo's. :) > > > > > > > Hmm. It says in the FAQ that EPEL 'encourages' compatibility, and to > > file a bug in bugzilla. Are you saying that there are a lot of 'deaf > > ears' out there? > > > > Specifically, if I solve the problem, how do I feed back the fixes? > > This list? fedora-devel? Bugzilla? > > > > I'm basically selfish, and I'm not looking to change the world, just my > > part. > > Well, file a bug by all means... I think a lot of maintainers would be > interested in maintaining compatibility as well. Search back in the > archives however for a bit of the political background on this whole > topic. :)
Will do. Next post I'll have something more substantial for people to argue about ;-) Thanks, David _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
