[Novalug] CentOS, Fedora, and rpms

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, maxpublic08 at maxwellspangler.com wrote:

 	[snip]
> With my recent upgrade to Fedora 8 I switched from using 
> Freshrpms to livna which actually has more rpms than freshrpms. 
> So to do what I do:
>
> 1) Install Fedora
>
> 2) Run the software updater to get all patches applied
>
> 3) go to the rpm.livna.org site and download (then install) 
> their rpm that configures your fedora system to use their rpm 
> repository.
>
> 4) run pirut and marvelle at all the extra packages and toys 
> available from livna...
>
> 5) Run the software updater on a regular basis and all your 
> fedora and livna rpms will be updated automatically.
>
> This is really good setup and the kind of environment people 
> have been applauding for years in regards to Debian's 'apt' 
> package manager..

 	I'm delighted to hear that opinion from a Real Old Hand; 
I've been doing it, too, and had the livna rpm at least in F7, if 
not before. Most of gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general is way over 
my head, or irrelevant to my interests, or both; but I do pick up 
nourishing tidbits there, and iirc livna was one.

 	I notice also that Dag Wieers and a couple others have 
started putting together a repo, or maybe a set of repos, to be 
called rpmforge -- not off the ground yet, but very promising.

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