Re: Duplicate FC6 packages for Freshrpms+Dries

On 12/8/06, Dag Wieers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, James Sedgwick wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:30 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:26 -0500, James Sedgwick wrote:
> > >
> > > >   I use both dries and freshrpms, although not installed via
> rpmforge
> > > > because there is no rpmforge FC6 package. I was wondering how I can
> > > > avoid so many packages being duplicated between the two
> repositories.
> > > > Often the freshrpms one will say "package.version.fc6.arch.rpm"
> whereas
> > > > the dries one will be "package.version.fc6.rf.arch.rpm," but they'll
> be
> > > > the same thing. What's that about?
> > >
> > > I believe you want the yum plugin protectbase. It can be installed
> from
> > > extras.  It allows you to specify a yum repo that other packages won't
> > > override if there are duplicates.
> >
> > The thing about protectbase is that I DO want dries to override
> > freshrpms if it has a newer version of a package, but NOT just because
> > it has .rf tagged on it.
>
> That is the downside of matthias (freshrpms), dries and me working
> together. It has many benefits, but the only downside is that we prefer to
> tag our packages with 'rf' and matthias obviously not.
>
> It doesn't matter whether he would use 'fr' as he did before or not tag
> them as all, both have the same consequence.
>
> The protectbase plugin however is a solution to you as freshrpms will
> always have the latest version. Simply because dries and me build exactly
> the same version. In fact for the packages that matthias maintains I would
> recommend the freshrpms package anyway :)
>
> Kind regards,
> --   dag wieers,  [email protected],  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
>

Does matthias give a reason why he does not want to use the rf tag?



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