[tools] RPMForge, Dag and Dries with Fedora 7

Jens E. Madsen Jr. maillists at madcyberspace.com
Wed Jul 18 14:12:40 CEST 2007


Thanks again Tom,
Jens

Tom G. Christensen wrote:
> Jens E. Madsen Jr. wrote:
>> Tom G. Christensen wrote:
>>> What you will get are the packages from RPMForge that Dries has built.
>>> To get the all RPMForge packages for F7 you should probably also look
>>> at Freshrpms.
>>>
>>> For now Dag and Dries are still tagging with "rf" but this may go away
>>> in the future.
>>> Freshrpms has already dropped the disttag.
>> I already pull the freshrpms from freshrpms.net RPMS.freshrpms. Should
>> these be combined with RPMS.dries. If not, is it safe to use both
>> repositories together?
>>
> I don't think you should combine them.
> All repositories under the RPMForge umbrella are meant to be
> compatible with eachother.
>
> Also RPMForge try hard to stay compatible with other 3rd party
> repositories but it's difficult since most of them don't show the same
> concern :(
>
> -tgc
>


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