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).
But ... after looking, it doesn't have either xemacs or seamonkey, 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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