Extra or compatible repositories for Mandriva?

[Nick_Djinn]

FIrst of all, in RPM package management, what decides if a repo is compatible or not? Coming from Debian were were always told NOT to mix Ubuntu and Debian repositories. In practice there is usually nothing wrong with doing this (if you are not running a server and dont need rock solid stability 100% of the time), as long as these are for extra apps or custom stuff, rather than core system stuff....If you add Debian Testing to Ubuntu it will ruin your system. If you add the custom repos for Backbox Linux to Mint Debian it will work ok for the most part. Sometimes you just have to run Synaptic twice.

So how far does compatibility go? Are you still compatible with Mandriva repos? Can you go farther and add other RPM repos (just apps, not system repos) from Fedora or Suse or Slackware? I am not asking if you SHOULD or if its good for stability. I am asking if you can in theory add the repo to software sources and try to download a package.


Next question: Are there any good security pen-test or privacy repos for Mageia? Any for Mandriva or any others? Any good multi-media or non-free repos?

[doktor5000]

You can in theory add any rpm repository, or try to install any given RPM package via rpm -ihv URL/to/package or via urpmi URL/to/package
But this is just in theory, and it doesn't make any sense, because RPM/urpmi will in most cases just error out and you're on your own again,
to find out why it failed and to interpret the error and to maybe workaround it somehow.

You should first read https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mirrors_poli ... able_media
For additional but unofficial repos, have a look here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1985

For reference, what do you mean by security pen-test or privacy repos, which programs are you missing in particular?