On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:43 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 1 April 2010 23:35, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > >> On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own > >> > software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora. > >> > > >> > >> And I recently learned they don't even use yum! :-o > > ---- > > well RHEL 4 doesn't but RHEL 5 does. > > > > You can install yum from CentOS 4 on RHEL 4 systems but you have to be > > vigilant about where packages are being installed from because RHEL 4 > > doesn't have repo information for yum. > > EPEL is a better place, as it's packages do not conflict with Red Hat ones. > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/x86_64/repoview/yum.html > ---- well we are getting a bit afield from Fedora here but I tend to use only rpmforge (dag) packages on RHEL systems and on RHELv4 systems, do it the hard way... using only rpm installation for them and do not use yum. In some cases, I prefer the more recent rpmforge packages over the RHEL versions (subversion, spamassassin come immediately to mind) but if I am using RHEL with one of my clients, I tend to be conservative about package installations and I've had some reticence using EPEL packages on RHEL. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
