which repos to use?

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:08:41PM -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> Hello,
> As of now, I use the yum.conf from fedorafaq.org.  I commented out the
> following:
> livna-testing
> livna-unstable
> fedora.us-testing
> fedora.us-unstable
> I'm tired of having mplayer crash on me.
> 
> That being said, I'm not getting enough packages.  So I scrolled down a bit
> further in my yum.conf and i notice the following repos commented out:
> freshrpms
> dag
> dries
> newrpms
> atrpms-stable/good/testing/bleeding
> But there is a comment above these repos saying that they might conflict
> with livna and fedora.us.
> 
> How do I know which repos conflict with other repos?  Which repos do people
> generally use?  Why is this so complicated?

You may want to check out medley-package-config, an rpm containing
apt/yum config files for a set of repos that mostly work nicely
together (including the repos at http://atrpms.net/repos/). You will
need to upgrade apt/yum to rpms that don't carry the config files with
them (otherwise you get conflicts with the medley-package-config):

http://atrpms.net/name/medley-package-config/
http://atrpms.net/name/apt/
http://atrpms.net/name/yum/

http://atrpms.net/install.html

> I did 'yum install mplayer-skins' and now i have the following installed:
> mplayer-skins-1.3-0.lvn.2.2
> mplayer-0.92.1-0.lvn.5.2
> mplayer-gui-0.92.1-0.lvn.5.2
> Well thats all fine and dandy, but no win32codecs are installed.  I can't
> play QuickTime movies.
> 
> So what do I do?  Comment out the livna repos and add some others (which??). 
> Then when I'm done installing the codecs, recomment them out and re-add the
> livna repos?  There has got to be a better way, I might as well compile
> from source...its actually less of a hassle.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> 

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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