Re: what's the story on mixing yum repos these days?
- From: Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:07:39 -0500
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 16:22 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Peter Gordon wrote:Note that if you back up one level from the above to
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i've read differing advice on whether it's safe to mix and match
livna, ATrpms and rpmforge repos. what i'm after is to install
various multimedia packages (codecs, mplayer, etc.)
any good advice? thanks.
I'm using the official GStreamer repositories [1] with Livna and
Core/Extras for all of my multimedia needs (gstreamer-universe,
mplayer, loads of open-source codecs, et al.) No troubles here. (The
Gstreamer FC5 repositories even work well with Rawhide, but that's
not considered stable at all (though I'm weird and cooky like that).
[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora5.html
thanks. the reason i asked is that the whole issue of mixing repos
was, and still is, a mess. here,
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Warning
we read:
"As you continue please keep the following in mind: You should not use
the livna.org repository in conjunction with the
dag/freshrpms/dries/newrpms (RPMforge) collection of rpms in your
configuration files for automatic updates. Use one group or the other
but not both. These two groups are mutually incompatible and can cause
errors in your installation if used together for automatic updates."
ok, so let's say i choose to go with rpmforge, at which point i'll
eventually end up here, looking for the appropriate rpmforge-release
package for FC5:
http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/rpmforge-release/
which doesn't have one for FC5 -- only up to FC4. ok, then, let's
google for "rpmforge-release fc5", which eventually takes us here:
http://apt.sw.be/dries/packages/rpmforge-release/fc5-i386/
so download and install, and try to "yum install mplayer" via
rpmforge, which fails with "No Match", etc, etc.
it sure would be nice if this were settled once and for all.
http://apt.sw.be/dries/packages/rpmforge-release/
that you can see all the releases.
The failure with no match means just that. There is no package with
that exact name in _that_ repo.
Also note that Dries only supports thru FC4. The rpmforge group
supports FC5 and later.
I got mplayer from the ATrpms repository which can be found thru
atrpms.net. AIUI atrpms is part of the rpmforge group.
rday
p.s. is there a single online HOWTO for multimedia under fedora core?
sure would be nice if everything related to multimedia/audio/video was
documented in a single place.
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