First steps of the transition from Livna to RPM Fusion begins now for livna-devel users!

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 09:43:00 UTC 2008


> Find below a cut'n'pasted and slightly enhanced version of a post from my
> blog FYI:
>
>
> As you'll likely have heard by now: RPM Fusion ( http://rpmfusion.org ), the
> merger of Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna gets closer to its official
> release/start. Most of the packages from Livna have been imported and build
> for RPM Fusion already, hence we now begin to slowly move users from Livna
> over to RPM Fusion by activating the RPM Fusion free and nonfree rawhide
> repos for users of livna's devel branch *now*.
>
> The transition works like this: I just added the rpmfusion-release packages
> for the RPM Fusion's free and nonfree rawhide repos to the livna-devel repo;
> in parallel I built a new livna-release package that tracks those two in
> with a hard dep. That way all users that installed livna properly (e.g. by
> installing the livna-release package) will get RPM Fusion repos enabled
> automatically with the next update. Yum/PK will hence with the overnext
> update will download a big bunch of updates, as all the packages were build
> anew for RPM Fusion; but rawhide users are likely used to big downloads, so
> this should hopefully not be a big problem ;-)
>
> Note, nearly all of livna's packages have been imported and build for RPM
> Fusion, but a few are still missing. So you should leave livna-devel enabled
> for now if you want access to those. Once all the packages have a new home
> we'll let the rpmfusion-nonfree-release package obsolete livna-release.
>
> But please note that all the packages that have been imported and build in
> RPM Fusion will *not* be updated anymore in livna-devel! Hence if you didn't
> install livna using the livna-release package then please enable RPM Fusion
> using the following command:
>
>> rpm -ivh \
>>
>> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm
>> \
>>
>> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm
>
> That command from now on is the right one to use if you want RPM Fusion
> enabled on your fresh new Fedora Alpha/Beta/RC/Rawhide install.

Is there any chance of getting all the kmod packages rebuilt against
the the current 2.6.27-3 release? The rest of the packages I've tested
look great, its just some of the kmod ones I can't.

Peter




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