[Yum] latest view on mixability of various repos?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Apr 28 15:21:08 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:50 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   what's the latest perspective on the interoperability of various
> repositories?  i know this has been a sore spot on occasion with folks
> who manage some of those repos, so is there an up-to-date opinion on
> what people should be concerned about, and how much of an issue this
> still is?  thanks.
> 

this isn't really an issue for this list. Repositories can simply be
incompatible. Ie: if repo1 names a package foolib and repo2 names the
package libfoo and for some reason repo2 adds Obsoletes: foolib to their
package or Conflicts: foolib. It's going to be a problem.


-sv




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