Best yum repositories for FC5?

[WipeOut]

Hi,

Sorry if this has come up often, I tried searching but couldn't find the 
answer..

Livna seems to have the most available packages for FC5..
RPMforge don't seem to have support for FC5 yet..
FreshRPMS have a few packages but not really that many as far as I can see..

What are all of you using?

Thanks

[Peter Gordon]

I'm using the standard core/updates with Extras, Livna, and the 
FreeDesktop.org gstreamer repositories[1]. Livna is made to be 
compatible with Extras, and the gstreamer repositories are made to be 
compatible with the Extras/Livna combo, so I've no troubles with 
conflicting stuff there.

[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora.html

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[Michael Offermann]

Am Samstag, den 29.04.2006, 21:54 +0100 schrieb WipeOut:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Sorry if this has come up often, I tried searching but couldn't find the 
>  answer..
>  
>  Livna seems to have the most available packages for FC5..
>  RPMforge don't seem to have support for FC5 yet..
>  FreshRPMS have a few packages but not really that many as far as I can see..
>  
>  What are all of you using?
>  
>  Thanks
>   
Hi,

I'm using the Livna package, and I thing that the most Fedora users are
also using Livna. It's a very pretty thing, and very very easy to use! 
I would say that it is very recommend to use Livna. So, install it, it
will never ever be a disadvantage.
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[Timothy Murphy]

Michael Offermann wrote:

>  I'm using the Livna package, and I thing that the most Fedora
> users are
>  also using Livna. It's a very pretty thing, and very very easy to use!
>  I would say that it is very recommend to use Livna. So, install it, it
>  will never ever be a disadvantage. 
I must be in a minority.
I only update from the standard core/updates/extras repositories
(which I get from a local repository).
While I have the .repo files for livna, freshrpms, dries, dag, etc,
they are all disabled (enabled=0) and I would only install 
individual packages from these repositories (yum --enablerepo=livna)
as and when required.

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[Garry Harthill]

On 30/04/06, Timothy Murphy <tim(a)birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie&gt; wrote:
>  Michael Offermann wrote:
>
>  > I'm using the Livna package, and I thing that the most Fedora users are
>  > also using Livna. It's a very pretty thing, and very very easy to use!
>  > I would say that it is very recommend to use Livna. So, install it, it
>  > will never ever be a disadvantage.
>
>  I must be in a minority.
>  I only update from the standard core/updates/extras repositories
>  (which I get from a local repository).
>  While I have the .repo files for livna, freshrpms, dries, dag, etc,
>  they are all disabled (enabled=0) and I would only install
>  individual packages from these repositories (yum --enablerepo=livna)
>  as and when required. 
I do the same. I don't like updating the entire system against 3rd
party repos. I only use them when I need to.

[Dan Kegel]

On 4/30/06, Garry Harthill <gazzerh(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > I must be in a minority.
>  > I only update from the standard core/updates/extras repositories
>  > (which I get from a local repository).
>  > While I have the .repo files for livna, freshrpms, dries, dag, etc,
>  > they are all disabled (enabled=0) and I would only install
>  > individual packages from these repositories (yum --enablerepo=livna)
>  > as and when required.
>
>  I do the same. I don't like updating the entire system against 3rd
>  party repos. I only use them when I need to. 
Is it possible to mark particular repositories with a regex for the
packages it is allowed to provide?  That would make it a lot
more convenient -- you wouldn't need to specify --enablerepo when
running yum.  Heck, you could even enable autoupdates and
feel somewhat safe your system wouldn't be creamed by strange
new updates from a repository...
- Dan

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:46 +0100, Garry Harthill wrote:
>  On 30/04/06, Timothy Murphy <tim(a)birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie&gt;
> wrote:
>  > Michael Offermann wrote:
>  >
>  > > I'm using the Livna package, and I thing that the most Fedora users are
>  > > also using Livna. It's a very pretty thing, and very very easy to use!
>  > > I would say that it is very recommend to use Livna. So, install it, it
>  > > will never ever be a disadvantage.
>  >
>  > I must be in a minority.
>  > I only update from the standard core/updates/extras repositories
>  > (which I get from a local repository).
>  > While I have the .repo files for livna, freshrpms, dries, dag, etc,
>  > they are all disabled (enabled=0) and I would only install
>  > individual packages from these repositories (yum --enablerepo=livna)
>  > as and when required.
>  
>  I do the same. I don't like updating the entire system against 3rd
>  party repos. I only use them when I need to.
>   
Livna has a policy of not replacing core/extras packages as far as I
know - so it is safe to leave it enabled.

By having it enabled - you make bug fixes that hit them available.

My philosophy is that if I don't want it enabled all the time, I don't
want it all. If it has something I can not get from a repo I want
enabled, then I look at submitting it to extras myself - or build it
myself (trying to adhere to the FE guidelines)

Installing something and then closing myself off from updates is not
what I like to do. Either it is in a repository I want to use, or I
maintain it myself.

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:15, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:46 +0100, Garry Harthill wrote:
> > On 30/04/06, Timothy Murphy <tim(a)birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie&gt; wrote:
> > > Michael Offermann wrote:
> > > > I'm using the Livna package, and I thing that the most Fedora
> > > > users are also using Livna. It's a very pretty thing, and very
> > > > very easy to use! I would say that it is very recommend to use
> > > > Livna. So, install it, it will never ever be a disadvantage.
> > >
> > > I must be in a minority.
> > > I only update from the standard core/updates/extras repositories
> > > (which I get from a local repository).
> > > While I have the .repo files for livna, freshrpms, dries, dag,
> > > etc, they are all disabled (enabled=0) and I would only install
> > > individual packages from these repositories (yum
> > > --enablerepo=livna) as and when required.
> >
> > I do the same. I don't like updating the entire system against 3rd
> > party repos. I only use them when I need to.
>
> Livna has a policy of not replacing core/extras packages as far as I
> know - so it is safe to leave it enabled.
>
> By having it enabled - you make bug fixes that hit them available.
>
> My philosophy is that if I don't want it enabled all the time, I don't
> want it all. If it has something I can not get from a repo I want
> enabled, then I look at submitting it to extras myself - or build it
> myself (trying to adhere to the FE guidelines)
>
> Installing something and then closing myself off from updates is not
> what I like to do. Either it is in a repository I want to use, or I
> maintain it myself. 
Unforch, livna seems to be on the missing list for about the last 36 
hours here.  If I don't uncheck it in kyum, it exits with an error 1.

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[Paul Smith]

On 4/30/06, Timothy Murphy <tim(a)birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie&gt; wrote:
>  > I'm using the Livna package, and I thing that the most
> Fedora users are
>  > also using Livna. It's a very pretty thing, and very very easy to use!
>  > I would say that it is very recommend to use Livna. So, install it, it
>  > will never ever be a disadvantage.
>
>  I must be in a minority.
>  I only update from the standard core/updates/extras repositories
>  (which I get from a local repository).
>  While I have the .repo files for livna, freshrpms, dries, dag, etc,
>  they are all disabled (enabled=0) and I would only install
>  individual packages from these repositories (yum --enablerepo=livna)
>  as and when required. 
There is no Dag repository for FC5 as far as I know.

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On 4/30/06, Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  There is no Dag repository for FC5 as far as I know. 
And, by the way, is there some substitute of it?

Paul

[Timothy Murphy]

Paul Smith wrote:

> > There is no Dag repository for FC5 as far as I know. 
No, I just listed some of the *.repo files I have.
Hopefully, dag may add FC5 repos some day.
(Though I seem to recall his saying he would not?)

>  And, by the way, is there some substitute of it? 
I thought dries, which I mentioned, is some sort of substitute for dag:
--------------------------------------
[tim@elizabeth ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo
[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$rel...
enabled=0
--------------------------------------

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[Michael A. Peters]

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 21:54 +0100, WipeOut wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Sorry if this has come up often, I tried searching but couldn't find the 
>  answer..
>  
>  Livna seems to have the most available packages for FC5..
>  RPMforge don't seem to have support for FC5 yet..
>  FreshRPMS have a few packages but not really that many as far as I can see..
>  
>  What are all of you using? 
I use the following:

core/updates/extras/livna +

gstreamer -
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora5.html

I only use the gstreamer-0.10-gst.repo file.
The -deps repo is basically just livna stuff.
The -apps repo didn't have anything of interest to me.

I like the gstreamer repo because it has some cool plugins that are not
in rpm.livna.org - and also, gstreamer10 is under somewhat rapid
development, bug fixes seem to appear there first. Word of caution - it
will replace core/updates gstreamer packages. I think it is worth it
though. The packager for that repository is a core gstreamer developer,
and also packages stuff for extras/livna.

tetexrpm - (self plug) http://www.tetexrpm.org/

This is a repo I run for strictly noarch packages for tetex3.
Unless you are into LaTeX, it is of no interest to you. That's all it
has.