Trusted Repos?

[jackal]

Hello,


I just recently installed Fedora Core 2 Test 3, and I must say I am very impressed. It is an extremely polished distro, and I am looking forward to using it alot in the future.

However, one of the things I'm not confortable with is all the different package repos for both yum and apt. One of the things that turned me off about Debian was the dizzying number of repos someone would have to include in their sources.list to have access to the majority of commenly used and up to date software outside of what is installed by default. I'm coming from Arch Linux, which has a centralized package database that is mirrored in its entirety (sp?), thus allowing everyone to have access to all available software, and not having to hunt down repos and perhaps introduce incompatibilities with current repos. I am currently using yum as it is the package manager that comes bundled with FC2-test3.

My question is:

What are the major, commonly used, and trusted repos that are suitable for Fedora. Mirrors that are known to have high standards with compatibility with the core Fedora packages?

I realize I'm using FC2-test3, so I'm not sure how this question is best answered. Are their repos that would be best used once FC2 becomes stable? Is it ok to use some of the FC1 repos until FC2 becomes stable?

Sorry for my long winded question, but my major concern here is stability with large package selection. What is my best course from this point?

Thanks for your time,


Jackal

[gonzalo76]

What are the major, commonly used, and trusted repos that are suitable for Fedora. Mirrors that are known to have high standards with compatibility with the core Fedora packages?

I wrote a good HowTo add extra repos to APT tool and up2date tool
Take a look:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1608
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1506
The repos are only for Fedora Core 1 but it's not too dificult changing them to Fedora Core 1.91 or 1.92 and eventually Fedora Core 2.

[jackal]

gonzalo76,


Thanks for those links. From most of the repos, I have found that a development branch of packages exists for FC2-testing. I added the ones that looked good to my yum.conf.

I'm not sure if I should be using the freshrpms repo, but it has alot of software (mplayer, xmms-mp3, etc) that I want/need that aren't in the other repos. Things should be better once FC2 goes final.

Thanks again for your help.

[Finalzone]

There is also livna repositories that include media software. http://rpm.livna.org

[micha]

I use these repositories:
fedora.us (Fedora extras)
rpms.livna.org (Livna)
macromedia.rediris.es (Plugin Flash)
rpms.xcyb.org (k3b)
ayo.freshrpms.net (FreshRPMS)
newrpms.sunsite.dk (NewRPMS)
apt.sw.be (DAG RPMS)

They work just fine. I have no stability problem to report. So I consider these repos trusted.
Actually there were some troubles at the begining of Core 1. But the different repos did a good job to "synchronize" their packages to avoid any redundancy.

[Jman]

It's hard to balance stability with completeness. There are some things that can't be included in the main repository for licensing issues, like MP3 encoding. Then to get a certain package you want you add a repository. The problem is that the dozens of other packages can conflict with other versions from other repositories.

It all depends on the software you want. Unfortunately, setting it up right now is a bit of trial and error to see which repositories play well with others.

[mip]

Originally posted by micha
[B]I use these repositories:
fedora.us (Fedora extras)
rpms.livna.org (Livna)
macromedia.rediris.es (Plugin Flash)
rpms.xcyb.org (k3b)
ayo.freshrpms.net (FreshRPMS)
newrpms.sunsite.dk (NewRPMS)
apt.sw.be (DAG RPMS)


Don't you have compatability issues with the bottom 3?

[micha]

No, nothing. What packages have you got problem with ?

[Bana]

I find that 90% of the things I want are in fedora.us and the rpm.livna.org (another 5% or so is in the dag repo).