On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:05:21PM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> SL 5 does not translate to Fedora Core 5. It doesn't translate to
> Fedora at all, but the closest would be Fedora Core 6.
>
> So, where would you get things out of Fedora Extra's for SL5 or SL4.
> Well, there is a new Fedora project called EPEL, which is basically the
> extra's stuff for RHEL.
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/
>
> It's still very new, but it has alot of stuff in it. I don't know how
> it compares (as far as compatibility) with the repositories we already
> have (dag and atrpms).
Well, there has been some negative developement resulting in all 3rd
party repos (existing in RHEL space like dag/dries/atrpms/karan and to
become like ccrma) and CentOS being driven away from EPEL. So
compatibility will most likely suffer, because it needs to be a two
way street. Consider me biased, but the reason for the above is that
EPEL refuses to cooperate with anything non-EPEL, other than drawing
in development resources.
But there are some people that did like the idea of
dag/dries/atrpms/centosplus/extras/karan etc. merging and maybe this
will happen soon.
> But ... after looking, it doesn't have either xemacs or seamonkey,
Try out
http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/
xemacs is there, no seamonkey, though.
> so maybe your way is the way to get it ... currently. Just know
> that if a year, you won't be getting any updates for them, and
> seamonkey often has vulnerabilities.
>
> Troy
>
> Alex Finch wrote:
> > Here's a quick tip.
> >
> >
> > I wanted to add xemacs and seamonkey to our test SL5 installation as
> >they are missing, and extensively used by our users on SL3 and 4.
> >
> > I found they exist in the fedora extras repository, so I tried
> >following the instructions in:
> >
> >http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/EXTRAS
> >
> >This give the baseurl as:
> >
> >baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
> >
> >
> >However this does not work as $releasever apparently translates to 5.0
> >whereas the value which works is 5, so I replaced $releasever with 5 and
> >it worked. I was able to do
> >
> >yum -y install xemacs
> >yum -y install seamonkey
> >
> >The complete contents of my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo is:
> >
> >[extras]
> >name=Fedora Extras - $releasever - $basearch
> >baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/$basearch/
> >
> >failovermethod=priority
> >gpgcheck=1
> >gpgkey=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > hope this helps someone!
> >
> > Alex
>
>
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