On Sunday, July 26 2015, David Collier-Brown wrote: > On 07/26/2015 01:54 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: >> On Friday, July 24 2015, David Collier-Brown wrote: >> >>> For a long time, I've been using the Fedora XFCE spin, but wanted to >>> build a new for-work dev machine and got RHEL 7.2, so I would have a >>> supported version to host recent tools on. >> I think you meant RHEL-7.1, right? RHEL-7.2 has not been released yet. > The download page said 7.1, but I included uname -a in the message, as > it had said something else... > $ uname -a > Linux miles 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 15 21:38:46 EDT > 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x
I see. The "7.2" you see there is an internal version number; this specific Linux kernel has been released for RHEL-7.1. >>> Fedora is fun, but tends to lag in app versions while being at the >>> bleeding edge in kernel versions, which is fine for a toy machine, but >>> the inverse of what I want for a machine to make money with.. >>> 86_64 GNU/Linux >> Out of curiosity, why do you say that Fedora "tends to lag in app >> version"? The Linux kernel and the GNU toolchain are well maintained >> and up-to-date; popular desktop programs as well, at least in my >> experience. > > At the time it's cut Fedora is up to date, but their stated policy is > to not spend much time updating until the next release is cut. I'm > constrained to use specific recent versions of Eclipse, Java and Scala > for work, and I couldn't even get the previous (Luna) version of > Eclipse until a kind chap created a custom repo of it for Fedora. > Current release is Eclipse Mars, which installs without any pain on > RHEL workstation. As you would expect. Hm, I don't know about this policy (I am a heavy Fedora user and I maintain a few packages in the distro). The current release always gets tons of updates for the vast majority of the packages, and even the "older" releases also get a decent number of updates as well (assuming they have not been EOL'ed). >>> Alas, RHEL 7.2 seems to be much *more* broken than Fedora fc 21 >>> Yum can't even do a groupinstall, >> Do you mean yum does not recognize the "groupinstall" command at all? >> As you have mentioned below, yum actually *can* do a groupinstall >> without problems. > > No, I said *other folks* with earlier RHEL 7s could do a groupinstall: Sorry, I was confused with your original sentence, and I thought you were not able to do a 'yum groupinstall' of any package. > I get > $ sudo yum groupinstall Xfce > [sudo] password for davecb: > Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, subscription-manager > Warning: group Xfce does not exist. > No packages in any requested group available to install or update Do you have EPEL enabled in your system? I could not reproduce this problem, but I am interested in helping you fix it. -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/ --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
