Fedora Extras is extra

Bernd Radinger bradinger at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 21:43:16 UTC 2004


On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:31:37 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
>
> 2.  It tried to remove libaasound.so.2 and libFLAC.so.4 plus one other I
> don't remember.  All of which were required for one or more packages
> already installed

'flac' and 'alsa-lib' are from FC, not Fedora.us.
 
> 3. process of elimination identified the problem repo.
> I removed repos, one at a time, and tried the update with each removal,
> then re-added thttp://www.wellsfargo.com/hat repo and removed the next.
> dag, newrpms, freshrpms, atrpms, then last fedora.us. 

That is a side-effect of repository-mixing. Some of the other
repositories do upgrade or modify 'alsa-lib' and 'flac', Fedora.us
doesn't.

> > "Packages in Fedora Extras must not conflict with packages in
> >  Fedora Core."
> >
> > Fedora.US has some packages that do not meet this requirement.

Your theory is void.

-- 
Bernd




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