using rpmfusion repo during fedora install

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Sat Nov 8 05:01:35 CET 2008


Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 07.11.2008 15:03, David Timms wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> No idea. Note, I try to test the stuff right now as well, but for some 
> stupid reason the installation in a KVM guest fails with the last 
> package (the kernel) anaconda tries to install
I think I saw someone say that devel/preview rpm and kernel were/are 
getting installed twice, so that could be your issue ?
Or were you trying with F9/8 ?

>>> But note, the better question would have been: Does out comps.xml 
>>> have the right format? But I think it has, as it works just fine with 
>>> stand-alone pirut (if one complies and runs the F8 version on rawhide)
>> So I should continue to try and work out where the issue actually lies ?
> 
> I'd be glad, yeah. But note, I'll try to run some test myself as well; I 
> plan to open a bug in bugzilla.redhat.com when I had a chance to look 
> deeper into this.
> 
> But note, we can't be really sure our comps files is correct. But I hope 
> it is.
I don't see any test scripts etc for comps.xml {other than xml tests}.

OK, for 9:
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/9/i386/repodata/804f17201293133c36a020ea786d00eb978300a2-comps.xml

I see eg:
===
<group>
<id>rpmfusion_free-gnome-desktop</id>
<name>GNOME Desktop Environment (RPM Fusion Free)</name>
<description>
GNOME is a powerful graphical user interface which includes a panel, 
desktop, system icons, and a graphical file manager.
</description>
<default>true</default>
<uservisible>true</uservisible>
−
<packagelist>
<packagereq type="optional">gnome-mplayer</packagereq>
<packagereq type="optional">gstreamer-plugins-bad</packagereq>...
...
<category>
<id>rpmfusion_free</id>
<name>RPM Fusion – Free</name>
−
<description>
RPM Fusion package add-on repository with open source software.
</description>
−
<grouplist>
<groupid>rpmfusion_free-base</groupid>
<groupid>rpmfusion_free-hardware-support</groupid>
<groupid>rpmfusion_free-gnome-desktop</groupid>

===
That seems to indicate that the group would include the "(RPM Fusion 
Free)" text, and be different to the Fedora group, which contradicts 
what you said earlier about the group being undifferentiated from Fedora.

DaveT.


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