[PlanetCCRMA] package management

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 07:14, nigel henry wrote:
> Hi Ron. You'll be ok uncommenting  dags repository. You can run apt-get update 
> ok, but I wouldn't run apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade with it. I did have a 
> problem where it upgraded apt and messed the sources.list up. I'd just be 
> satisfied to get the bits I want from dags site, then recomment it in 
> /etc/apt/sources.list, so that when you next run apt-get update, and then 
> upgrade or dist-upgrade, you will get the upgrades from planetccrma. Hope you 
> find the bits you want. Nigel.

That is what I usually do, uncomment the repo I want, "apt-get install
yyy" and then comment it out again. For xine, mplayer and friends I
usually use freshrpms. 

-- Fernando

> I'm not having a go at dags repository, just commenting on a problem I 
> personally had.
>
> On Wednesday 11 May 2005 12:44 pm, R Parker wrote:
> > --- R Parker <rtp405@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > So my /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmsave looks like:
> > > # Planet CCRMA RPM Repository for Fedora Core 3
> > > rpm http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt
> > > fedora/3/i386 core updates
> > > rpm http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt
> > > fedora/3/i386 planetccrma
> > > rpm http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt
> > > fedora/3/i386 planetcore
> >
> > For starters I see there's /etc/apt/sources.list.g/
> > with:
> > atrpms.list  dries.list      newrpms.list
> > planetccrma.list
> > dag.list     freshrpms.list  os.list
> >
> > How do we use these other repositories and do it with
> > minimal risk of screwing up our systems?
> >
> > I imagine that the freshrpms.list can be uncommented
> > and then an 'apt-get update' can be performed but will
> > Planet and Fresh have some of the same applications in
> > each repository and what about things like library
> > versions and such?
> >
> > ron
> >
> > > Everything else is commented.
> > >
> > > I want to get xine and other application packages
> > > installed. These aren't part of Planet CCRMA. What's
> > > the preffered method of accessing other
> > > repositories?
> > > Is there any reason not to uncomment the other
> > > repositories?
> > >
> > > I don't want to make a mess of my system.
> > >
> > > ron
> > >
> > >
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