[repo-coord] Re: Zero-tolerance educational methods for promoting questionable policies???

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:47:51PM -0700, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > > Install the alsa stuff from freshrpms, then add planetccrma to your
> > > > repository list.  Maybe the conflict won't show until the next
> > > > update, though.
> > > 
> > > Both repos are automatically active at every ATrpms user including me,
> > > and I have a mix of alsa kernel modules from ATrpms (as I am using an
> > > ATrpms kernel), and alsa-utils from either freshrpms or PlanetCCRMA
> > > (whoever updated first) w/o any problems.
> > 
> > Odd, I get:
> > WARNING: kernel-module-alsa not available for kernel
> > 2.4.26-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma!
> > and
> > The following packages have been kept back
> >    alsa-driver (1.0.4-0.fdr.1.1 => 1.0.4-1.cvs.rhfc1.ccrma)
> >    gstreamer-plugins (0.6.3-3 => 0.6.4-0.4.fr)
> >    gthumb (2.0.2-1 => 2.2.1-1.fr)
> > 
> > Wouldn't that be a problem if I continue?

This looks like coming from fedora.us (from the "fdr" repo
tag). Compatibility with fedora.us is a similar issue - I'd like to
have fedora.us in the list of comaptible repos, but fedora.us has an
explicit policy of not supporting repository mixing. This has led to
many discussion on many lists in the past. While many people disagree
with this policy, it is at least an open stated goal of the
project.

Nevertheless this means that mixing fedora.us repos with other repos
can have such effects. And in fact mixing will always cause
compatibility bugs, after all there are thousands of packages in all
repos together. Up to now at least most repos were trying to resolve
any reported issues.

> Are you using 2.4.26-1.ll? It would seem that something is requiring a
> "kernel-module-alsa-*" package for it, but that would not be me or any
> of my packages. The matching alsa kernel module for that particular
> kernel is named alsa-kernel-* (and is - should be - installed if you
> install planetccrma-core-* as per the instructions in the Planet CCRMA
> web site). 
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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