[ATrpms-users] Holy grail of replacing core packages

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:28:55PM -0500, hondaman wrote:
> 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.

It's not about whether to use/trust 3rd party repos in general, but
more specific in the replacement of packages offered by the upstream
vendor.

My argument is that whether a repo replace a package from the
distribution or whether the user dls a non-replacement package and
uses it, if the repo is borked, you'll system will suffer the same
damage.

And several years of operation show that at leats for ATrpms the bug
rate is quite low and is in almost all cases in non-replacement
packages (in fact of the top of my head there were no real issues with
any replaced packages up to now).

BTW if yum fails on you, just try smart. yum even fails with one repo
enabled, e.g. within fedora updates.

> 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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