Re: Problem with faad2 with F7

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

On 17.07.2007 12:11, Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:
> On 17/07/07, Chris Jones <jonesc hep phy cam ac uk> wrote:
>>> I'm not done it myself, but maybe yum-priorities can do the tricks to
>>> avoid conflicts from different repo ;-)
>> Yes, it can. I'll doing this myself at the moment on my Fedora7 box.
>>
>> I have a fair number of external repos enabled (livna, freshrpms, atrpms,
>> adobe-linux) However, I have only given livna, my 'primary' external repo,
>> the same priority as the main fedora ones. This means this repo is favored
>> over the others if a package is available from there (even if the others
>> have 'newer' ones). I can then use freshrpms and atrpms for the odd few rpms
>> livna doesn't provide (openafs for intance from atrpms).
>>
>> Works very nicely once you have it set up. However, if you are currently in a
>> dependency mess, you will need to clean that up first by hand before this
>> using approach - Its no magic 'cleanup' bullet...
>>
> The thing that I don't understand is why is livna's faad2 package has
> release 2.0 ( dated Oct 2006 ), while faad2 package from freshrpm is
> 2.5 ?

There were license changes in 2.5 and it was/is unclear if they are
sane, thus livna choose to stick to 2.0 for now. There is a bug about
this somewhere in bugzilla.livna.org

CU
knurd