On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:30:03AM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:33:21PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > > On 10/20/05, Juan M. Duran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On jue, 2005-10-20 at 21:06 -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: > > > > I'm a newbie to yum. I need some yum repos for my config file so I can > > > > get stuff. FC4. Stuff like Nvu, etc. > > > > > > There you are a commented example of yum.conf, take a look. > > > Actually its is for FC3, but you will find the repos inside, just change > > > the $releasever to 4 > > > > Is not $releasever a global variable that is set to the release > > version you are running? > > So it is automagically set to 4 if that's what you need. > > > > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc3/samples/yum.conf > > > > > > Anyway check > > > > > > http://www.fedorafaq.org > > > > This is probably true. To reiterate, I am a yum novice (and I don't mean > a hottie-nun).
It is true. Yum gets $releasever from the version of the fedora-release
package (rpm -q fedora-release --qf "%{VERSION}").
> How then would I instruct yum to go do the right thing and get me a FC3
> package for FC4? The reason I ask is because I can't find a yum server
> with the FC4 versions of xine, the goal of the exercise. (It's for the
> new Myth box.)
You can hard-code the version (3) instead of using $releasever in the
repo file. I don't know how well this works. You'd probably end up in
dependency hell.
However, xine can be found in the Livna repository:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ yum list xine
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
xine.i386 0.99.4-0.lvn.3.4 livna
Setting up the Livna repository is as easy as (from
http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html),
rpm -i
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.5.4.noarch.rpm
As a side note, I don't recommend ATrpms. It's useful to grab packages
now and then, but it replaces a lot of core packages and leads to a lot
of system instability. A lot of problems I see crop up in #fedora is
due to running 'yum update' with ATrpms enabled.
> Alternate question: I'm perfectly happy to compile xine and all its
> necessary dependencies for this box. Why not? BUT (big *but*) I'd sure
> like to know what code packages I have to download to satisfy all the
> dependencies. Can yum tell me that?
>
> I wish I had a brain ...
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