Yes but we use the mdp devolved layer and I've asked if their repos are 
yum enabled and they say no.

So unless my LM say's I can create a yum archive I'm not sure what else 
I can do.

Faye

On 27/04/10 15:13, Chris Cooke wrote:
> Faye Gibbins wrote:
>> The Uni of Edinburgh does not use yum on its supported (LCFG) SL5.x
>> platform. We have to installed each and every rpm.
>
> I don't know about you Faye but I do sometimes use yum to install a new
> bit of software; it's especially handy for sorting out dependencies and
> producing a problem-free list of packages to install.
> Then you just feed that list to our normal package management software.


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