Fedora repos

[superbnerd]

What is the main repo alliance you use? Which niche repos? What confilcts have you encountered? And what do you think of fedora's updaters (yum, apt, up2date)?

[Ug]

I use Fedora extras/Livna/

[superbnerd]

I use both alliances and have not encountered any major conflicts. the mplayer from livna is much easier to install because it comes as one package. no need to install mplayer-common, mplayer-gui, etc. I get k3b from xcyb.

[imdeemvp]

i use yum and only use Dag, and Freshrpms.

[Ug]

I use both alliances and have not encountered any major conflicts. the mplayer from livna is much easier to install because it comes as one package. no need to install mplayer-common, mplayer-gui, etc.. Nope. I had to install mplayer-gui and all those other packages when I used Livna two days ago. ;)

[superbnerd]

oops, I meant the ATrpms mplayer. I always get that confused.

[Ug]

No problem.

[ghaefb]

I always use rpm.pbone.net

[imdeemvp]

I always use rpm.pbone.net

my favorite too.....there i find everything i need. ;)

[superbnerd]

how does rpm.pbone.net compare to yum? pbone just finds them right, so you still need yum to install them?

[imdeemvp]

superbnerb,

they are not "associated" to any linux distro....they just have everything but i believe mdk can access them.

[ghaefb]

how does rpm.pbone.net compare to yum? pbone just finds them right, so you still need yum to install them?
It's a rpm search engine.. you find rpm there, download, install(rpm -ivh package.rpm)
You get dependencies... search for them too, install,.. and so on :)

[superbnerd]

but essentially, the search engine searches the repos, or does it search other places?

[Jman]

I use all of the above, and a couple additional ones I added to try them out. And when they don't work together I comment some out. Needless to say I have customized repo config files. :)

[foolish]

I have to stress this: Don't mix repositories unless you're certain they are compatible

To the ones who use both, stop it! It will eat babies at some time. If you do encounter a problem, in the core packages or in the extras, you're bug rapports won't even be valid due to the complete mess in your package system. Don't mix repositories!

[superbnerd]

that essentially why I started the poll. I wanted to see how many people, like me, use both repo alliances, and find out what confilcts they have had. no one has said anything about conflicts yet, so I suppose yum and apt are doing thier jobs.

[xsos]

I use Dag/Dries/Fresh/New/ATrpms

[mark]

Fedora extras/Livna. When I feel adventurous (or I'm trying to find something that doesn't live in my usual repos), I'll fire up a text editor and start swapping comments around in yum.conf. I'll occasionally use apt/Synaptic, especially when I'm looking for something uninstalled that I don't have the correct package name for.