Re: New Centos User - Yum Repositories Question

[Dianne Yumul <dianne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might want to try the DAG RPM Repository:

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php

hth

On May 10, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Dave Cross wrote:

I've been using Red Hat and its derivatives since RH4.2. I use Fedora

Core 6 for all of my desktop machines, but I decided to go for Centos

5 for my new colo web server.

So I've just taken delivery of a new Centos 5 virtual server from

Bytemark (http://bytemark.co.uk/) and I'm trying to get it set up with

all the RPMs that I'm used to from FC6.

As I understand it, the Centos Extras repository at

http://centos.karan.org/ is the equivalent of Fedora Extras, so I've

downloaded and installed the *.repo file from that site.

But I still don't seem to have access to all of the RPMs that I was

hoping for. I was particularly looking for the Perl CPAN modules that

are part of Fedora Extras. Very few of those seem to be available.

Am I just too early? Is the Centos Extras repository not quite ready

for Centos 5 yet? Or is there a technical reason why the Fedora Extras

RPMs can't be rebuilt for Centos? Or do I need to configure yum for a

different repository?

if I have to rebuild the RPMs myself, then I'm quite happy to do that.

I just wondered if they would become available automatically if I

waited a while. There's no real hurry to get this server up.

Cheers,

Dave...

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