On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote: > j d wrote: > >> Yeah, I inherited this server and I'm sure whatever support and >> updating services they paid for are now over. I didn't think I needed >> the RHN, I figured that was only a rpm repo run by Red Hat and that I >> just needed to point yum to a free place (like EPEL). I guess at this >> point my only choices are to either update RHEL (hope you can do this >> for free if you don't buy support) or to take another 3 days to wipe >> the machine and reinstall with another Linux variant. > > EPEL is only providing *extra* packages for RHEL/CentOS. You still need > to have the base and updates channels configured. If you don't want to > renew your RHN subscription, my choice would be to make it into a CentOS > 5 machine (binary compatible with RHEL). You'd need to install the > centos-release package instead of the redhat-release one: > > i386: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.4/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-5-4.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm > > x86_64: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.4/os/x86_64/CentOS/centos-release-5-4.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm > > That should enable the CentOS base and updates repositories. Subsequent > runs of yum update will get their packages from the CentOS repositories. > > But this project is going out of the CouchDB scope now, so you might > want to take this off-list to a CentOS forum or something. Be sure you > know what you're doing if this is a production server. > > Nils. > > De informatie vervat in deze e-mail en meegezonden bijlagen is uitsluitend > bedoeld voor gebruik door de geadresseerde en kan vertrouwelijke informatie > bevatten. Openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging, verspreiding en/of verstrekking > van deze informatie aan derden is voorbehouden aan geadresseerde. De VPRO > staat niet in voor de juiste en volledige overbrenging van de inhoud van een > verzonden e-mail, noch voor tijdige ontvangst daarvan. >
Thanks again. Over and out.
