Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-11-03 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 11:14 -0500, Rob Townley wrote: Andrew, $ yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel info kernel Does not show any kernels except what is already installed. i suppose you have to enable testing and for that matter, looking in CentOS testing first would be better. yum

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel\* info kernel\* It is --enablerepo=elrepo\* but not epel\* Elrepo has several sub-repositories defined: [elrepo] [elrepo-testing] [elrepo-kernel] [elrepo-extras] snip

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-11-03 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Sun, 2013-11-03 at 07:46 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel\* info kernel\* It is --enablerepo=elrepo\* but not epel\* Yep! That's the trouble with new-fangled gadets that

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-27 Thread Rob Townley
Andrew, $ yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel info kernel Does not show any kernels except what is already installed. i suppose you have to enable testing and for that matter, looking in CentOS testing first would be better. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Andrew Holway

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-27 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi Rob, Sorry, its not in in EPEL its in elrepo. [root@jamflaps ~]# yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo info kernel-lt Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * elrepo: jur-linux.org Installed Packages Name: kernel-lt

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-27 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 10/27/2013 12:14 PM, Rob Townley wrote: Andrew, $ yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel info kernel Does not show any kernels except what is already installed. i suppose you have to enable testing and for that matter, looking in CentOS testing first would be better. On Fri, Oct 18,

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-19 Thread Markus Falb
On 19.Okt.2013, at 02:16, Andrew Holway wrote: I have never had any problems with EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Recently I used it to upgrade a kernel to 3.0.99 from the stock 2.6.32 and everything just worked apart from an obscure kernel module for hfsplus support. EPEL does

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-19 Thread Markus Falb
On 19.Okt.2013, at 05:05, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:52 PM, isdtor wrote: Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. note that there is now a php5.3 in the base repository, I

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 02:06:00PM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: On 19.Okt.2013, at 05:05, John R Pierce wrote: php seems to be one of the things where upstreams backporting strategy did not fit anymore. Hard to backport when there is nothing to backport _from_. Upstream 5.1 has been dead for a

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-19 Thread Andrew Holway
Ah yes, I got kernel-lt from elrepo... [root@jamflaps ~]# yum info kernel-lt | 5.0 MB 00:01 Installed Packages Name: kernel-lt Arch: x86_64 Version : 3.0.99 Release : 1.el6.elrepo Size: 134 M Repo: installed From repo :

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-19 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Andrew Holway andrew.hol...@gmail.com wrote: Ah yes, I got kernel-lt from elrepo... [root@jamflaps ~]# yum info kernel-lt And you mentioned earlier, and everything just worked apart from an obscure kernel module for hfsplus support. Regarding kernel-lt /

[CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread isdtor
Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in parallel to and without interfering with base packages?

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread m . roth
isdtor wrote: Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in parallel to and without interfering with base packages? We use

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:23 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: isdtor wrote: Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions | of | software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and | ius. | | Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in | parallel | to and without interfering with

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread Andrew Holway
I have never had any problems with EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Recently I used it to upgrade a kernel to 3.0.99 from the stock 2.6.32 and everything just worked apart from an obscure kernel module for hfsplus support. ta, Andrew On 18 October 2013 21:52, isdtor isd...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday, October 18, 2013 21:52:43 isdtor wrote: Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. Is one preferable to the other? Can their packages be installed in parallel to and without

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/18/2013 1:52 PM, isdtor wrote: Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. note that there is now a php5.3 in the base repository, I believe it was part of the 6.4 update, its called

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 10/18/2013 11:05 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:52 PM, isdtor wrote: Can anyone comment on the use of 3rd party repos for newer versions of software like php, python and mysql? Two I am aware of are puias and ius. note that there is now a php5.3 in the base repository, I believe

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/18/2013 8:22 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Also, isn't there a way to download the packages / apps that you want directly from the homepage? for instance Debian didn't come with the latest version of LibreOffice, so my friend just went to the LibreOffice site and downloaded and

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-10-19, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: Also, isn't there a way to download the packages / apps that you want directly from the homepage? Sure, but this can be time-consuming, not every software package provides a suitable rpm, and even if they do, you still need to

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 10/18/2013 11:47 PM, Keith Keller wrote: On 2013-10-19, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: Also, isn't there a way to download the packages / apps that you want directly from the homepage? Sure, but this can be time-consuming, not every software package provides a suitable

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread Peter
On 10/19/2013 04:47 PM, Keith Keller wrote: On 2013-10-19, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: Also, isn't there a way to download the packages / apps that you want directly from the homepage? Sure, but this can be time-consuming, not every software package provides a