[mythtv-users] OT: Fedora repos?

[Richard Shaw]

Dylan R. Semler wrote:

>With FC5 coming out on Monday, I'll be doing a few re-installations.  
>This time around I'd like to get my yum repositories strait and without 
>complications.  Unfortunately, there seems to be some confusion 
>regarding enabling ATrpms.
>
>I would like to enable atrpms, along with the RPMForge repositories for 
>my 3rd party software, however Stanton-finely warns against it just 
>above on this page:
>http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html#Yum
>
>which I guess is based on this information
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnMahowald/ATrpmsWarning
>
>which seems pretty strong.  However, the atrpms page maintains that it's 
>completely compatible with many of the non-livna repositories.  Well, 
>the technically say that they are in "cooperation," which doesn't 
>necessarily mean that they are compatible.
>http://atrpms.net/repos/
>
>However, according to what Axel has said on this list, the only way to 
>reliably update myth is through enabling the entire atrpms repo and doing
>yum update
>yum update myth\* is very bad and can result in problems and therefore 
>shouldn't be used
>
>So what does one do?  These people on the fedora sites seem to say that 
>atrpms is incompatible with the *core* fedora distribution and "is not 
>advised."  However, the atrpms site seems to indicate the contrary, and 
>that is is compatible with RPMForge and the like.  Furthermore, Axel 
>maintains that the only proper way to update myth is to have the entire 
>repository enabled in yum.
>
>What have people been doing?  Is enabling atrpms entirely not as 
>dangerous as people make it out to be, or should I just forget atrpms 
>and build from source?
>
>Dylan
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The only problem I had, and I'm not sure what caused it as I had both 
the atrpms and the freshrpms repos enabled by default. I did a yum 
update and I ended up with about 5 other repo's being automaticly 
installed. Afterwards I couldn't update due to dependency problems. Now 
I keep both the freshrpms and atrpms repos disabled (enabled=0 in the 
.repo file) and override that with yum --enablerepo when needed, usually 
for mythtv or the nvidia kernel modules. So far this has worked very 
well for me.

Richard