[ATrpms-users] Holy grail of replacing core packages

[hondaman]

In his defense, using third party repos has caused problems for me in 
the past when trying to use yum to upgrade from fc* to fc*  Now, I 
usually have many repos enabled, so I'm not sure which is to blame for 
the troubles, but the end result is a multitude of dependency problems.

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:47:08PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>   
>> I'm reading:
>>
>> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/problems.html#english
>>
>> about how the various Redhat versions of mkisofs are broken, and
>> wondering if an unmodified version (or unbastardized, as it is
>> affectionately known to certain people ;-) would be a useful thing.
>>     
>
> I partly agree with you, on the other hand I have to cope with stuff
> like
>
> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnMahowald/ATrpmsWarning
>
> which drive many users away.
>
> (BTW it would help if ATrpms users would contact the above authors and
> defuse their statements/warnings about ATrpms)
>   
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