ATRPMS dependencies conflict

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue Apr 24 18:39:05 UTC 2007


> But allow me to post a warning: Once a package you use from ATrpms
> requires another (sub)package as found in ATrpms, but is shadowed by
> livna, or a package in freshrpms requires another (sub)package from
> freshrpms which is now shadowed by ATrpms and livna, or a package from
> dries <and so on>, then you get peculiar bugs that are specific to how
> you setup your system and the priorities, e.g. it is not even
> reproducable by other users that use the same repos.
>
> The repo maintainers may have tried to provide sane packages
> compatible with the other repos, but the priorities revert this work.
>
> This is called selective/partial enabling of a repo and no repo will
> support any issues that may yield out of this. Because, as said, the
> resulting bugs are of a rather per host nature.

Thanks for the warning. taken on board.

I *think* the only problem I had was with ffmpeg. There seems to be a 
definitive difference in how this is packaged between livna and atrpms that 
leads to conflicts. If this could be fixed I would be happy to try again 
without priorities.

cheers Chris




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