Duplicate FC6 packages for Freshrpms+Dries

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, James Sedgwick wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:30 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:26 -0500, James Sedgwick wrote:
> > 
> > > 	I use both dries and freshrpms, although not installed via rpmforge
> > > because there is no rpmforge FC6 package. I was wondering how I can
> > > avoid so many packages being duplicated between the two repositories.
> > > Often the freshrpms one will say "package.version.fc6.arch.rpm" whereas
> > > the dries one will be "package.version.fc6.rf.arch.rpm," but they'll be
> > > the same thing. What's that about?
> >
> > I believe you want the yum plugin protectbase. It can be installed from
> > extras.  It allows you to specify a yum repo that other packages won't
> > override if there are duplicates.
>
> The thing about protectbase is that I DO want dries to override
> freshrpms if it has a newer version of a package, but NOT just because
> it has .rf tagged on it.

That is the downside of matthias (freshrpms), dries and me working 
together. It has many benefits, but the only downside is that we prefer to 
tag our packages with 'rf' and matthias obviously not. 

It doesn't matter whether he would use 'fr' as he did before or not tag 
them as all, both have the same consequence.

The protectbase plugin however is a solution to you as freshrpms will 
always have the latest version. Simply because dries and me build exactly 
the same version. In fact for the packages that matthias maintains I would 
recommend the freshrpms package anyway :)

Kind regards,
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