Thanks Dag, So, is there any point having Dries' repo installed at all?
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 19:08 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, James Sedgwick wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:30 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:26 -0500, James Sedgwick wrote: > > > > > > > I use both dries and freshrpms, although not installed via > > > > rpmforge > > > > because there is no rpmforge FC6 package. I was wondering how I can > > > > avoid so many packages being duplicated between the two repositories. > > > > Often the freshrpms one will say "package.version.fc6.arch.rpm" whereas > > > > the dries one will be "package.version.fc6.rf.arch.rpm," but they'll be > > > > the same thing. What's that about? > > > > > > I believe you want the yum plugin protectbase. It can be installed from > > > extras. It allows you to specify a yum repo that other packages won't > > > override if there are duplicates. > > > > The thing about protectbase is that I DO want dries to override > > freshrpms if it has a newer version of a package, but NOT just because > > it has .rf tagged on it. > > That is the downside of matthias (freshrpms), dries and me working > together. It has many benefits, but the only downside is that we prefer to > tag our packages with 'rf' and matthias obviously not. > > It doesn't matter whether he would use 'fr' as he did before or not tag > them as all, both have the same consequence. > > The protectbase plugin however is a solution to you as freshrpms will > always have the latest version. Simply because dries and me build exactly > the same version. In fact for the packages that matthias maintains I would > recommend the freshrpms package anyway :) > > Kind regards, > -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
