Re: Migration from freshrpms to rpmfusion (important, please read!)

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 10:58 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As many of you know already, some 3rd party rpm repositories for Fedora
> have merged into RPM Fusion, and freshrpms is one of them. For details,
> see the http://rpmfusion.org/ page.
> 
> As of Fedora 10, there will no longer be any new packages on freshrpms,
> except for libdvdcss, which isn't provided in RPM Fusion (I wish it
> was, but that's another story).
> 
> The Fedora 10 freshrpms repository contains a new freshrpms-release
> package, which automatically installs the "free" and "nonfree"
> rpmfusion repositories. My tests have gone well, and I'll be pushing
> the same change for Fedora 9, so be warned.
> 
> This is quite a major and invasive change, but I really think it's for
> the best. Users will still need to manually accept and import the RPM
> Fusion GPG keys in order to trust the signatures on those new packages,
> so the big change isn't done without the user being aware.
> 
> Please report any migration/upgrade problems you might experience.
> All of the required "Obsoletes:" that have been identified have already
> been added to the RPM Fusion packages to provide a smooth upgrade path,
> but it's possible for some to have been missed.

Everything went fine for me (or, at least, it's Fedora who broke it, not
you). Upgrade from Fedora 8 to 10.

One minor inconvenience: I had to yum update freshrpms-release first,
then do the big yum update. That's because there's no freshrpms-release
update for Fedora 8 that installs the RPMFusion repos.

Thanks for the great work with freshrpms, BTW! I've been a happy user
for years.

Peter

> I'll update the freshrpms.net website ASAP to mention these changes.
> 
> Matthias
> 
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