On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 18:07, Jack Coates wrote: > About as OT as it comes, sadly... > > I'm needing to use an RH system, and I find that urpmi has me massively > spoiled. Is there anything like it or a port of it for RH7.3? The old > rpmfind/google dependencies hunt for every library and program under the > sun is taking hours out of my day, and Ximian's red-carpet doesn't touch > urpmi for completeness. I'm actually getting worried that the packages > for common Perl stuff simply don't exist, as half the time I can't find > them and end up compiling from source any way. What do other RH admins > use, the apt-get port from Conectiva? >
The K12LTSP project has both yum and apt-get repositories set up and feature all the latest packages from RH (bugfix, security etc) for releases since RH7.3 IIRC. K12OS is simply the current RH release with preconfigured LTSP and K12 education related packages added (plus a bunch of the normal packages (DHCP etc) optimzed for the LTSP environment). K12 3.0.x is RH8 based - K12 3.1.x is RH9 based. I had a link to an apt-get package from K12 for RH7.3 at one time but I've lost it. It's out there but it'll take some searching. Both the yum and apt-get packages should be available on any of the K12 mirrors AFAIK. Of course we're an edu institution, but we have moved to K12OS on all of our servers largely because of the ease of updates and even full distribution upgrades these apps bring. http://www.k12ltsp.org Before everyone flames me I'll admit it's probably because I don't spend enough time with urpmi to understand it's potential but I have found either yum or apt-get easier to use, more successful, and less hassle. I often end up having to upgrade my Mandrake workstation the old fashion way by downloading and manually installing things. I wish I could 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to upgrade my mdk9.0 to 9.1. Is there a way to make urpmi do that? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: In order to control energy costs the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice...
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