On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:41, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Well... You're (probably) going to start having problems once fedora > uploads their extra (stable, testing, unstable) packages. You'll notice > that those repositories are empty right now. The reason you'll have > trouble is that there are packages (gimp 1.3 is one of them now) that > both freshrpms and fedora package. You might be lucky enough to not see > any instability, but there might often be dependency problems when > trying to update.
I've never had any such problems using apt with a variety of sources. If there are problems, apt reports them as dependency errors. Also, like Greg said, the sources.list file is prioritized by line. By putting the fedora.us lines above freshrpms, they are given priority when resolving dependencies. Furthermore, Freshrpms should now be compatible package-wise with fedora, since they are now supporting fedora as the main distribution package tree. So there will be few problems. I also think that saying you'll have "unstability" because of package mixing is a misnomer. Instability will be the result of immature/buggy programs in the packages, not the packages themselves (in a package or any of its dependencies packages). If the program installs and runs, it runs, if not it won't. Michael > > If you wish that weren't so (like me) write to the freshrpms guys and > ask them to coordinate better with fedora. > > Actually, I suppose it's possible they've fixed those problems. I'm > speaking from my .95 experience. It's very likely that at least the apt > and yum packages will fight with eachother. > > Greg Felix wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I spent some time today trying to figure out where I wanted to point my > > /etc/apt/sources.list file now that I'm running FC1. I think I've got a > > pretty good one. Here are all my non-commented lines: > > > > rpm http://download.fedora.us fedora/fedora/1/i386 os stable testing > > unstable updates > > rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386 core freshrpms updates > > rpm http://download.fedora.us fedora/redhat/0.95/i386 os stable testing > > unstable updates > > > > just make your sources.list resemble that and do: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get upgrade > > > > or if you're really behind: > > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > > > I left the fedora .95 one in there because it still has some packages > > newer than FC1 (synaptic). Also the freshrpms line gives you access to > > some good stuff. > > > > I especially enjoyed the fact that freshrpms has gimp-1.3.22 in it now. > > It's pretty sweet and not that's it's an rpm you don't have to compile > > it. If you haven't tried gimp-1.3 check it out, it's way cooler than > > gimp-1.2 > > > > There you have it. Have fun. > > > > Greg Felix > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
