RPM Repository Problems
mitch @ 5:27 pm on November 5, 2005
I’ve been running Fedora for a while now, both at home and on my work machine. Up untill Core 4, the repositories used for the extra packages that are not included with Fedora were excellent. However, both boxes I have, are getting quite messed up when updating… Its becomming extremely annoying. So annoying that I’m considering switching distro’s again. Possibly going back to Gentoo. With gentoo’s massive software collection, and having it at my fingertips ready to be compiled. If you remember I ran gentoo a year or so ago on my home machine for a while… untill some file system corruption that I blamed on my configuration of Gentoo. Had I known then it was because my harddrive was dieing I might not have been so hasty in making the switch. There were other things that made me make the switch as well however. Such as the Cisco VPN client. New developtments in software packages however, have added an option for vpnc. Which is an open source project that is compatible with the Cisco VPN concentrator we have at work. I still need to test it for myself to make sure I’m able to connect with it, but it will probably be the thing that allows me to go back to Gentoo. With Gentoo, using all the questionably legal software on linux becomes *MUCH* easier because they’re still in portage, and no third party repository is needed. So I won’t experience the problems I’ve had currently with Core 4. (Like I said before, using the same repositories now, as I did with core 3… and I never had these problems with core 3.) I’ll let you know how it goes.
