On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:57:31AM -0700, Chris Grau wrote:
> > >
> >
> > 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.
>
Thanks, Chris. This is almost making sense, a feeling I get from time to
time in Linux, usually before either breakthrough or disaster. Let's
hope I'm on the enlightenment side ;-)
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