VDQ : repositories, compatibility of?

[Derick Centeno]

I'm not home just now, but the answer to your question regarding yum is that 
I designed my yum.conf so that it looks in several places simultaneously.
This works for YDL 3.0 and YDL 3.0.1; I see no reason why it cannot work for
YDL 4.0!  

IF there is an interest in what I did and how, then I'll post it here as it 
combines several ideas I picked up from other Linux luminaries I met here and 
elsewhere.  Another way to get the gist of what I did is to refer to the YDL 
FAQ pages which addresses this kind of question and others which may be 
useful to you.  Here is the link:
www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/start

Don't fear....see this process as a challenging expansion of your talent!
Best wishes....Derick.

> 
> From: Beartooth <beartooth at adelphia.net>
> Date: 2004/12/16 Thu PM 04:57:16 EST
> To: yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: VDQ : repositories, compatibility of?
> 
> I'm wondering, once I manage to get my head around actually modifying my
> yum.conf, whether there are any gotchas, such as packages that break other
> packages.
> 
> Iiuc, the fedora folks are having some troubles with packages from one
> repo that don't necessarily play nice with those from another -- though
> there's a newish post from Max Kanat-Alexander on one of the fedora lists
> than may mean that's been coped with; I'm not sure I follow it what he
> says -- and I *think* he's talking FC3 anyway ....
> 
> Otoh, all the YDL sources I know of *seem* to mirror one another (when
> they're up) -- or have I got that wrong?
> 
> Specifically, this question at least: Suppose I manage to get a yum.conf
> put together properly so that it tries for packages both at freshrpms and
> at ibiblio. Can I be sure they'll work together? I notice that Andrew
> posted two possible yum.conf files, one for each -- not a single file with
> both ....
> 
> I've been through dependency hell with mozilla and galeon before, and
> don't want to go anywhere remotely similar again ....
> 
> -- 
> Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux
> Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!
> 
> 
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