Re: Compatibility with Fedora EPEL and other 3d party repositories
Hi!
Sorry for the late reply.
On 20.06.2008 00:49, Nikolay Ulyanitsky wrote:
1. Is RPM Fusion fully compatible with Fedora EPEL?
RPM Fusion is not started yet (but will hopefully soon). A add-on repo
for Fedora is the first and main target; the RPM Fusion add-on repo for
RHEL+EPEL is just a idea that some of the RPM Fusion developers (mainly
I afaik) want to realize once RPM Fusion for Fedora is running properly.
a) Can RPM Fusion packages conflicts with EPEL packages?
No, normally not. There might be only a few rare cases where conflicts
might show up and are unavoidable (I can't think of any, but one never
knows); that's the same in Fedora, where IIRC a handful of packages
conflict explicitly ("Conflics: foo" in the spec file) or implicitly
(conflicts on the file level) with other Fedora packages.
b) Can RPM Fusion packages replace (have newer EVR) EPEL packages?
No, not in the main repos RPM Fusion will provide.
*Maybe* we in the long run RPM Fusion might start some additional repos
with dedicated things -- like a "KDE4 for RHEL5" or "Kernel 2.6.26 for
RHEL5" repo. Those will be in a special place for a subset of our users
that are willing to accept replacements to get specific things realized
-- but thats just a option we like to keep open for the long term and
nothing that is planed for now.
c) If EPEL add existing in RPM Fusion package in his repository,
after
this will RPM Fusion remove or rename this package from his repository?
Packages that are possible to be shipped in Fedora/EPEL will normally
not get accepted in RPM Fusion. In those rare cases where a existing
package due to upstream or other changes suddenly is permitted to get
shipped in Fedora/EPEL RPM Fusion will stop updating it as long as the
update path for users is taken care of by Fedora/EPEL.
2. Is RPM Fusion fully compatible with other 3d party repositories?
That's a hard question and there are many ways to answer it; and he
answers to this sort of questions quickly leads to misunderstandings and
flamewars.
So let me say just this: the main repos from RPM Fusion will be add-on
repos for Fedora or RHEL/CentOS+EPEL. The goal is not to disturb those
base sets we build and rely on. That's what a lot of people would define
as compatibility (as EPEL is a 3rd party repo as well).
As soon as more 3rd party repos get into the mix a lot of problems often
show up for users as the ecosystem (rpm/yum) is not designed to properly
handle this. A lot (but not all!) of those problems can be fixed without
downsides for existing users; if that's the case then we/the package
maintainer in question IMHO should fix the problem.
Cu
knurd