How long to setup a new system?

[John Abreau]

David Kramer wrote:
> Because no one Fedora repository (livna, atrpms, freshrpms..) has
> everything I needed, I ended up with some nasty conflicts that took me
> close to three hours to resolve.  Following the assorted mailing
> lists, it's clear there are frequent battles between atrpms and livna
> that leave packages compiled with different options, or broken out
> differently.  I even found packages with dependencies that weren't
> even anywhere in the repository.

I used to find that frustrating, too, a couple years ago. But a few tweaks
over the past couple years made those issues disappear.

First, yum-protectbase adds protection to the core repos, so I can tell
yum not to upgrade a core package from a third-party repo. Second,
I standardized on the rpmforge repo for most third-party add-ons, and
disabled other third-party repos by default; then I only enable them on
the command-line when I want to install specific packages from them, e.g.

    sudo yum --enablerepo=atrpms install mplayer

Third, I only use Fedora for desktop and laptop installs, and CentOS or
RHEL
for server installs.

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