Fedora needs more evangelism for repositories

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:39:54 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > What do you do if another package was prepared for and tested with the
> > newer version of mplayer?
> > 
> > Example: repo A (priority), repo B
> > 
> >   "libfoo 1.0"    is from repo A
> >   "libfoo 1.1rc2" is from repo B
> > 
> >   "bar" from repo A  was built and tested with libfoo 1.0 from repo A
> >   "baz" from repo B  was built with libfoo 1.1rc2 from repo B
> > 
> > You install "bar + libfoo 1.0" from repo A, the higher libfoo 1.1rc2 is
> > ignored due to prioritized Apt-pinning.
> > 
> > What happens if you want to install "baz"?
> 
> I pretty much aviod that by using priorities above 1000 which will 
> install a package from a repository even if it is a downgrade.

Exactly that is the problem. Or you haven't understood my example yet.