You got the right approach. RedHat seems to have come a long way since then and dependencies are generally OK now, but you should still watch out when trying to mix things which aren't necessarily supposed to be mixed together.
In that sense - I repeat my previous advise to be very picky about which sources you add to your system beyond the well known ones like RPMForge, EPEL and maybe one or two others I can't remember right now. (background: I used to use Debian only and hate RedHat dependency hell for over a decade, until about 5 years ago I had to switch to CentOS for servers simply because the options for Debian server hosting were much more limited. CentOS 5 treated me well since then, once I got the hang of it. I still stick to Debian Testing (back from Ubuntu) for my desktops). --Amos 2012/2/24 Micha <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> > I don't mind installing from anything that is compatible, I do need > something new enough though to install from in the first place. I just > don't know what are the compatibilities and repository versions with red > hat and what I believe are it's relatives, Fedora and centos. > > I would have put debian unstable with a touch of experimental on this > machine, but it came preinstalled with red hat, so I'm seeing if I can make > it work before I swap hard drives. Not sure it it's the smartest approach, > but we'll see. > > I recall running into upgrade dependency hell last time I was with red hat > about ten years ago (before yum was invented), and I'm aware of care that > should be taken with debian and debian vs ubuntu as well, which is why I'm > being cautious trying not to shoot myself in the foot before I start ... > > Thanks > > On 24/02/12 02:31, Michael Vasiliev wrote: > > Are you sure you can't make a chimera install by salvaging packages off > corresponding version of Fedora? In case it's not the way, creating your > own repository is surprisingly doable. Googling for "yum repository" gave > me enough hints when I had to do that. You're looking at some maintainer > work (editing specfiles and recompiling the source package) every time the > dependencies for your packages change, however. > > On 02/24/2012 12:44 AM, Micha wrote: > > I was just given a red hat enterprise 6 system to setup for a project, > only there is no repository setup on in and for this project I need pretty > bleeding edge software and software that is not installed. Unfortunately > for this project I come from a debian background so I have no knowledge of > the red hat repository management world. > > How do I setup a repository and which ones are available? > > I need up to date boost libraries (1.46 and up) and hwloc at the moment, > not sure yet what else. > > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing > listlinux...@cs.huji.ac.ilhttp://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- [image: View my profile on LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
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