another Yum problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:44:21 -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. 

"updates-testing" contains packages (so-called "test updates") which may
or may not end up in the "updates" repository in the future, as an
official Update for Fedora Core Update.  Giving test updates a try
(e.g. new kernels) can help in avoiding unexpected trouble with official
updates.

If, however, you don't want to try any packages, regardless of how much
they smell like they are experimental, disable both "updates-testing" and
"development".

The "development" repository is the road to the next release of Fedora
Core, still far away from Fedora Core 5 Test 1.

-- 
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at users.sf.net>
Fedora Core release 5 (Development) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1426_FC5
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