On 04/08/2011 10:24 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:14 -0700, JD wrote:
>
>> Looks like after deleting the offending rpm for libmad
>> all is well now.
>> Yum check shows no problems and yum update shows no problems.
>
> The lesson for all to learn from this thread is that you have to be very
> careful when using multiple third-party repos. What I do to avoid this
> kind of thing is that only one of the third-party repos is enabled by
> default. The other typically has only a few packages in it that I use,
> so I enable that one only when I want to update packages that come from
> it, and I ask for those packages specifically to prevent lots of
> unrelated packages from being dragged in from that repo and confusing
> things.
>
> This would not apply to very specialized repos that contain a very small
> number of specific packages, such as the Virtual Box repo that contains
> only vbox packages, and the Adobe repo that I only have flash-plugin
> from and it contains only Adobe packages. Those I can pretty much keep
> enabled without causing problems.
>
> --Greg
>
>
True.
I just modified the .rpm files for rpmfusion and atrpms
to include only the packages I am interested in, and which
will not cause the havoc I've been through.

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