Hi > I am slightly confused on the yum repositories that come "in the can" with > SL...specifically the "dag" vs. the "dries" repo's, which seem to have a > LOT > of duplication....and in trying to figure out WHICH to use...or BOTH...I am > having difficulty. They seem to duplicate a lot of packages..but of > course, > there are some differences as well....so...what is the BIG DIFFERENCE > between these to very full repositories? These shall eventually merge , see: http://rpmforge.net/ (http://rpmforge.net/about.php) (http://rpmforge.net/packager/distributions/) so maybe already using rpmforge would be good idea ? (I'm personally using it on FC4). > Also, if the COMPLIMENT each other, I'm assuming that there is no trouble > activating BOTH of them? I am also assuming that all of the rpms are > compatible > with each other... No, you shall see no problems activating above: however in the past there were some conflicts between DAG repo and ATrpms repo: I believe this is resolved by now (Axel, the ATrpms maintainer reads this list so maybe he could confirm ?) > Second...the "contrib" and "bugfix" repose (shut off by default)...I see > that the "contrib" > repo adds a few things that don't come "in the can"...like kernel > modules and such... Indeed. > fine. The bugfix, which seems to be empty for the most part I'm > assuming would be > different from the errata..which is more interested in security fixes, > right? errata is supposed to be security fixes , bugfix - enhancements and .. well .. bugfixes ... (it is mostly empty by now as RH releases most bugfixes/enhancements only once per quarter). > In a funky sort of way, I'm asking if it's advisable to turn on ALL of > those repositories, That's what I do on few systems: no real problems seen so far. [which brings me to the very nice feature of apt that yum (IMHO) is missing: one can specify repository precedence .. I'm not sure if smartpm implements that concept too] Jarek __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/FIO/LA _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _