another Yum problem

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:44 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tue July 12 2005 4:53 am, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >
> > The following information is missing: What distribution version do you
> > use? What distribution version do you want? Judging from your brief
> > list of repositories, it seems you call something "standard", which is
> > not standard. For Fedora Core Development there is no "Livna"
> > repository. "extras" should be "extras-development". And how well kde-
> > redhat plays with Fedora Core Development is unclear, too. You probably
> > want "updates-testing" instead of "development".
> >
> As you and Paul noted, I did indeed have development turned on ( I use KYum 
> which has a GUI which makes it very easy to select/deselect repos). I turned 
> off development and extras-development, and now I'm down to a list of 55 
> updates, but of those, 50 are from updates-testing. I have no more reason to 
> have that repo turned on than I had for the other two previously mentioned. 
> 
> If one of you guys would like to, I'd be interested in hearing your views on 
> when it 'is' appropriate to turn on those repositories. 

If there's a particularly good reason that you want to test out the
current development branch of Fedora (i.e. probably you are a developer
wanting to keep up to date) and can afford to have a machine not work
for days at a time and have to reinstall it from time to time, you would
enable the development repo permanently in the .repo file.

If there was a particular package you were having issues with and
feedback from this list/forums/bugzilla suggested that your issue was
fixed in rawhide, you might want to enable the development repo just to
update that package:

# yum --enablerepo=development update packagename

However, you might find that this wants to pull in a large number of
libraries that your updated package depends on, and I'd be very wary of
doing that. A better solution might be to download the SRPM for that
package and try rebuilding it in your FC4 system.

Similar reasoning would apply to the updates-testing repo, though there
are far fewer packages there and they're safer to install because they
won't depend on large numbers of new libraries. Kernel updates often
appear in this repo before being released as official updates.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>