[mythtv-users] Lirc + CentOS5 + rpmforge

[Mitch Gore]

>
> That's actually one of the reasons I jumped from Fedora to Ubuntu for
> my home systems (and mythbuntu for the myth boxes) about 2 years ago.
> Much less dependency-hell since then (and also much less need to use
> 3rd party repositories).
>
> That being said, on the Centos 5 machines I do have, I keep an
> "enabled=0" line in the yum repo file for atrpms and rpmforge.  When I
> need to install a specific package I just use "--enablerepo=atrpms" on
> the yum command, this tends to keep things in check better.  Also, an
> "exclude" line in the repo file can be helpful in telling yum you
> don't want packages from a particular repository.
>
> I recently came across a yum plugin called "priorities" which seems
> like it should address the problem as well.  I haven't tried it yet,
> but take a look at:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
>
> Hope this helps
> -Joe
> _______________________________________________
>

i agree that ubuntu does a better job with deb issues. It doesn't have
anything to do with the software/apt-get vs yum.  But all to do with how
ubuntu issues non-free/closed software.  They are all compiled by 1 group
Ubuntu.  Red Hat refuses to to do so 3rd party groups compile them.  Once
RPMFusion is complete hopeufully everyone will be brought under 1 group and
not duplicate packages and make everything compiled to work together.  Until
this happend fedora/EL will have these issues.

I cant do much about this excpet mitigate it with priorities and being
careful.  In any event i have spent way to much time at this point on my box
to switch OS's.

So, doesnt anyone know how to get the rpmforge lirc packages working?  Maybe
ill try and put the atrpms ones back in.

Thanks,
Mitchell


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Mitchell
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