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Using too many repositories will cause you problems. Most repositories contain similar packages, so this may cause intereference with each other. An example is never to mix newrpms, dag, livna and freshrpms because of the different way they name packages. If you mix them you will be forever upgrading your system due to the different ways that they name packages and each time a new build is put in their repositories, the package manager may insist that you upgrade.
You can look in the repositories yourself and you will find the package listing. I am also talking from experience because at one point I mixed a few repositories and it ended up being quite irritating.
Reddazz is absolutely correct. Additionally, in order to maintain system stability, it is best to stick with the packages that Red Hat provides.
As a general rule, stick with the default configuration and maybe add the repo for Fedora Extras and you will have a stable and well functioning system.
As one group, Fedora Core + Fedora Extras + rpm.livna.org are made to be compatible. Which group of 3rd party repositories is made to be compatible, I don't know currently.
They are all compatible with the main Fedora distribution because they don't build packages that are already in the main distribution. Compatibility with the main distro does not mean that the repositories are compatible with each other though. Like I mentioned earlier a lot of the packages are duplicates of whats in other repositories and this is what causes problems. The main Fedora Core third party packagers are trying to join forces and create one single repository so that these problems are ironed out.
Originally posted by reddazz Using too many repositories will cause you problems. Most repositories contain similar packages, so this may cause intereference with each other. An example is never to mix newrpms, dag, livna and freshrpms because of the different way they name packages. If you mix them you will be forever upgrading your system due to the different ways that they name packages and each time a new build is put in their repositories, the package manager may insist that you upgrade.
The only one of those that has ever caused me any problems is livna. Livna is great, but it doesn't always play well with others, so if you must use it, it's safest to use it by itself. IIRC, the remaining repos are all members of rpmforge.
Originally posted by reddazz They are all compatible with the main Fedora distribution because they don't build packages that are already in the main distribution.
Not true. The at-stable repository does replace/upgrade Fedora Core packages as you can see here easily.
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Originally posted by snarkout IIRC, the remaining repos are all members of rpmforge.
The available rpmforge.net documentation and faqs disagree with that.
Originally posted by misc The available rpmforge.net documentation and faqs disagree with that.
Care to point out where? I'm happy to admit I'm wrong, and did preface that comment with an IIRC, but I can't find anything that contradicts me yet. The info I'm going from is from freshrpms and dag's own site. Here is dag's list of "joint effort" repositories: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/mega-merge.php - the only info I've seen on rpmforge.net is the name of maintainers.
Well, and with the name of the maintainers you have seen contradictory information yourself, provided that you know who maintains which repository. And additionally, jpackage.org and "flash" don't belong to rpmforge either.
Ah - I was referring to the repos in redazz's post, not the huge list at the top of the page. I always maintain that it's a bad idea to have a dozen+ repos.
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