LIvna and FreshRPM

Brian Durant brian at durant.dk
Sat Apr 15 15:14:08 UTC 2006


I am a newbie at this too and thanks to others on the list, found out 
that it is possible to go into the individual repo files (I think there 
are 3 for Livna) and just change anything that says: 'enable=1' to 
'enable=0'

Brian

Guillermo Garron wrote:
> :)
> thanks!!
> 
> regards,
> Guillermo.
> 
> 
> Kam Leo wrote:
> 
>> On 4/14/06, Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> I have read here, that you can not mix freshrpms and Livna
>>> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Warning
>>>
>>> so as i have been using Livna and now i want to test FreshRPMs i will
>>> erase the LIVNA Repos and install the FreshRPMs ones
>>>
>>
>> Don't erase the repos. Move the files to another directory or rename
>> them to .repos.bak or some such. You may want to go back.
>>
>>> and do a
>>> yum update (as root)
>>>
>>> and that's it!
>>>
>>> right?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Guillermo.
>>>
>>>
>>> Javier Perez wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just install the freshrpms-package like this:
>>>>
>>>> rpm -Uvh
>>>> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm 
>>>>
>>>> <http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It will install all you need on yum.repos.d
>>>>
>>>> After if, do a yum check-update.
>>>> It will fill up all repository data and it might tell you what packages
>>>> might need updating.
>>>>
>>>> I know there are some issues about mixing livna and freshrpms (and all
>>>> the rpmforge repositories) and they are not supposed to be mixed
>>>> together, but I do not remember exactly what those issues are or how
>>>> objective the criticism is. You will have to google a little to find 
>>>> out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/15/06, *Guillermo Garron* <ggarron at alketech.com
>>>> <mailto:ggarron at alketech.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hi,
>>>>
>>>>     I am using Livna, and i would like to know how to change to use 
>>>> FreshRPM
>>>>     sourgeForge.
>>>>
>>>>     Is it only a matter of changing my /etc/yum.repo.d/ ??
>>>>
>>>>     or i need to uninstall all my packages installed by Livna before 
>>>> use
>>>>     FreshRPM.
>>>>
>>>>     Also if any one knows wich is better :)
>>>>
>>>>     regards,
>>>>
>>>>     Guillermo.
>>>>
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