Ryan,
Answer to your question, Can I add RHEL to my repository list. the
answer is yes. If you do not have yum now and don't use yum, you must be
using up2date. You can install yum and only use it for the repositories
you need. Or you can use it for the RHEL repositories, too. Or, better
yet, you can point it at the Scientific Linux repositories, which are
the same, but scrutinized much more than even RHEL. As someone wrote
you, there's a lot to be said about CentOS, but it's my experience that
it has less oversight than Scientific Linux, which, like I say, is just
RHEL with the logos stripped and each package written from source.
On the same issue, this post is from the Scientific Linux mailing list
and quite by coincidence came in just after I last wrote you today. It's
typical of the type of communication that happen frequently, though, not
being an IT, I can't understand a lot of the stuff they are talking
about. It can be pretty simple or really down to the jot and tittle. But
the main people are there, hired to answer everything they can, or to
find out.
I've just cut and pasted the e-mail here. Perhaps it'll be entertaining
or informative or in some way of use. I hope so.
And I'm sorry if I still haven't answered your question. I'm not the
brightest bulb in the Linux chandelier.
Bill
==
Subject:
Re: New yum in SL41 contrib
From:
Troy Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:08:28 -0500
To:
Troy Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC:
scientific-linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Troy Dawson wrote:
> Howdy,
> In preparation for S.L. 42, I have built the new 2.4 yum. For the
S.L. 4x series, we needed to move to yum 2.4, which has the ability to
have plugins.
> Why do we need plugins?
> Well, because it is the easiest way for us to deal with kernel modules.
> Many thanks go to the yum team for their continual development, and
many more thanks go to Panu Matilainen for creating the kernel-module
plugin.
> In addition, we also have yumex (Yum Extender), and yumex-applet.
> yumex is a very nice graphical front ent to yum. My favorite part is
the ability to select, and deselect repositories.
> yumex-applet replaces the normal rhn update throbber. It looks the
exact same, it's just that it uses yum and yumex as the back end.
>
> How to get these now?
> yum --enable=sl-contrib update yum\*
> yum --enable=sl-contrib install yumex\*
>
> Please give them a try.
> If nothing else, the new yum will automatically get your openafs
kernel module for you with this kernel that is out, and soon to hit the
errata area. (we're still getting everything finallized)
>
> Troy
One Note
The new yum has some dependancies because of the new way it does things.
You will also need the new yum-conf that you will see. The only
difference between this one and the older yum-conf is that in
/etc/yum.conf it has plugin's configured and turned on.
So when you do the "yum --enable=sl-contrib update yum\*"
It will update
yum
yum-conf
and it will install
python-elementtree
python-sqlite
sqlite
urlgrabber
Troy
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