Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-06-10 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
2006/6/5, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 20:28 +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Side note (only helps you if you want to bypass official package management): Many Python libraries, including python-elementtree, are pure-python libraries and should work unchanged with any

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-06-05 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 20:28 +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: 2006/5/30, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problem: what I want to install eventually requires me to upgrade python from the CentOS version (2.3) to the Fedora Core 4 version (2.4), and due to this it needs to upgrade a python

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-06-04 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:10 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:23 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora - only one of them is the fact that RHEL uses outdated software. Here's the main problem. Repeat after me: Fedora is not

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-06-04 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
2006/5/30, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problem: what I want to install eventually requires me to upgrade python from the CentOS version (2.3) to the Fedora Core 4 version (2.4), and due to this it needs to upgrade a python component called python-elementtree, as it requires a specific python

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-31 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 00:34 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 20:59 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I doubt that you'll be able to pull a clean upgrade between RHEL and FC using yum... it may even fail to upgrade between different consecutive Fedora versions. (Hence it's

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-31 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:23 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora - only one of them is the fact that RHEL uses outdated software. Here's the main problem. Repeat after me: Fedora is not RedHat. (silently ignoring this as everyone knows RHEL is

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-31 Thread Alex Alexander
How about: yum install debian?:POn 5/31/06, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:23 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora - only one of them is the fact that RHEL uses outdated software. Here's the main problem. Repeat after me:

Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I'm trying to work with CentOS 4.3 (RHEL 4.3 based distro) but some of the stuff it uses is too old for my needs, so I thought I'd upgrade some of the stuff to Fedora Core 4 (which IIRC is the closest Fedora Core release that is newer then RHEL 4.3 - and it includes what I need).

RE: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Ohad.Levy
: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:24 PM To: IGLU Mailing list Subject: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!) Hi list. I'm trying to work with CentOS 4.3 (RHEL 4.3 based distro) but some of the stuff it uses is too old for my needs, so I thought I'd upgrade some of the stuff to Fedora Core 4

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:23 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. I'm trying to work with CentOS 4.3 (RHEL 4.3 based distro) but some of the stuff it uses is too old for my needs, so I thought I'd upgrade some of the stuff to Fedora Core 4 (which IIRC is the closest Fedora Core release that is

RE: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:46 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK no, by yum logic it would mean that the repository is incorrect and will not accept the update. I don't think fedora would agree to correct their FC4 repository for me :-( Did you try yum localinstall? (download the rpm first

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 17:50 +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:13 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Problem: what I want to install eventually requires me to upgrade python from the CentOS version (2.3) to the Fedora Core 4 version (2.4), and due to this it needs to upgrade a

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 20:59 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: I doubt that you'll be able to pull a clean upgrade between RHEL and FC using yum... it may even fail to upgrade between different consecutive Fedora versions. (Hence it's unsupported...) That's really sad - I've been using

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 00:34, Oded Arbel wrote: Funny. upgrading between different brands of the same company works in every other Linux I've used - SLE-NLD-SuSE, Ubuntu-Kubuntu, Mandriva-NMS-Corporate Stop thinking of Fedora as RedHat. I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora

Re: Yum problem (or: do RedHat suck ? why, yes they do!)

2006-05-30 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Oded Arbel wrote: That's the gist of it - I don't want to do a full upgrade. I want to update select packages, but keep the basic system. I wouldn't recommend you doing that, since the Fedora packages don't have a policy of maintaining package dependencies for such cross-distro scenario. If