Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-06-10 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
2006/6/5, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 20:28 +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Side note (only helps you if you want to bypass official package management): Many Python libraries, including python-elementtree, are pure-python libraries and should work unchanged with any

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-06-05 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 20:28 +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: 2006/5/30, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problem: what I want to install eventually requires me to upgrade python from the CentOS version (2.3) to the Fedora Core 4 version (2.4), and due to this it needs to upgrade a python

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-06-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:10 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:23 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora - only one of them is the fact that RHEL uses outdated software. Here's the main problem. Repeat after me: Fedora is not

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-06-04 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
2006/5/30, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problem: what I want to install eventually requires me to upgrade python from the CentOS version (2.3) to the Fedora Core 4 version (2.4), and due to this it needs to upgrade a python component called python-elementtree, as it requires a specific python

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 00:34 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 20:59 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I doubt that you'll be able to pull a clean upgrade between RHEL and FC using yum... it may even fail to upgrade between different consecutive Fedora versions. (Hence it's

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-31 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:23 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora - only one of them is the fact that RHEL uses outdated software. Here's the main problem. Repeat after me: Fedora is not RedHat. (silently ignoring this as everyone knows RHEL is

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-31 Thread Alex Alexander
How about: yum install debian?:POn 5/31/06, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:23 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora - only one of them is the fact that RHEL uses outdated software. Here's the main problem. Repeat after me:

RE: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Ohad.Levy
AFAIK no, by yum logic it would mean that the repository is incorrect and will not accept the update. Did you try yum localinstall? (download the rpm first and then try) Cheers, Ohad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oded Arbel Sent:

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:23 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. I'm trying to work with CentOS 4.3 (RHEL 4.3 based distro) but some of the stuff it uses is too old for my needs, so I thought I'd upgrade some of the stuff to Fedora Core 4 (which IIRC is the closest Fedora Core release that is

RE: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:46 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK no, by yum logic it would mean that the repository is incorrect and will not accept the update. I don't think fedora would agree to correct their FC4 repository for me :-( Did you try yum localinstall? (download the rpm first

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 17:50 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:13 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Problem: what I want to install eventually requires me to upgrade python from the CentOS version (2.3) to the Fedora Core 4 version (2.4), and due to this it needs to upgrade a

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 20:59 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I doubt that you'll be able to pull a clean upgrade between RHEL and FC using yum... it may even fail to upgrade between different consecutive Fedora versions. (Hence it's unsupported...) That's really sad - I've been using

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 00:34, Oded Arbel wrote: Funny. upgrading between different brands of the same company works in every other Linux I've used - SLE-NLD-SuSE, Ubuntu-Kubuntu, Mandriva-NMS-Corporate Stop thinking of Fedora as RedHat. I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Oded Arbel wrote: That's the gist of it - I don't want to do a full upgrade. I want to update select packages, but keep the basic system. I wouldn't recommend you doing that, since the Fedora packages don't have a policy of maintaining package dependencies for such cross-distro scenario. If