Some thoughts on the yum tutorial

Wed Jul 27 21:42:40 UTC 2005

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:42 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:

> One way to be helpful could be, if we had an FAQ with a question that
> would have an answer of, "Don't cross the repository streams," we can
> just tell people that if they are using non-Core or Extras repositories,
> they may have conflicts between packages in those files, yadda yadda
> yadda.

I've just committed to CVS an amended section on "Understanding
Repository Compatibility" (sn-compat-repositories), with some stuff on
third-party repository compatibility. Hopefully that will help encourage
people to be careful with repository mixing.

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Stuart Ellis

stuart at elsn.org

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