fc4 - yum

[Timothy Murphy]

Temlakos wrote:

> The big issue is with the RPMForge repo family (FreshRPMS, Dag, Dries,
> and AT-stable/good/testing/bleeding). They have a wider variety of
> stuff, but they also have stuff that conflicts with the stuff in extras
> and livna. Their relations with the keepers of "extras" have been broken
> for years. So then you have to make a choice between the two
> families--and that might not be easy! Extras has grown by leaps and
> bounds--but if you want your "mythtv", you need Axel's at-stable at
> least, and that could break some of the extras packages.

I'd have thought the simplest (and safest) thing to do
was to add these repositories to /etc/yum.repos.d/
but with "enabled=0".
Then if you want to install a particular program not in the standard repos
you can say eg "yum --enablerepo=livna install <whatever>".

I got in quite a confused state by running "yum update"
with fedora-devel enabled.
This installed a version of python which caused trouble all over the place.

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