Beware: External repos can break key transition

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 16.09.2008 17:46, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Thus yum will install the new xine-lib-extras-nonfree from Livna, but 
>> not the matching xine-lib from Fedora. Thus all apps that rely on xine 
>> will silently stop playing some videos that they were able to play 
>> beforehand.
> 
> Huh? If that happened, I'd sure file a bug... against either the 
> package, for having a broken Requires:, or against yum/rpm for ignoring 
> the Requires:. But I'm confused, because (at least in my case) yum 
> correctly refused to install xine-libs-extras-nonfree until the matching 
> xine-lib was also available, so I don't get how this would happen.

This afaics would happen if Livna would have done what was suggested in
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-September/msg01462.html

So it was just hypothetical.

Cu
knurd