Being very new to yum, I have to ask the question, where do you locate the various yum repositories, and once you know where they are, is there a standard configure file per-se, that needs to be added to the yum.conf. Any pointers appreciated.
Sam
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Being very new to yum, I have to ask the question, where do you locate the various yum repositories, and once you know where they are, is there a standard configure file per-se, that needs to be added to the yum.conf. Any pointers appreciated.
CentOS 3 and 4 are slightly different.
/etc/yum.conf ,and if you are on CentOS 4 you will find /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
The default install configures yum to point to centos repository for core, updates etc.
The most useful addition to your yum configuration will be the DAG repository.
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B
After that you will want to mix in Dries, and ATRPMS repositories, after getting this far with it you will come across other useful repositories, and possibily start your own. All three listed repositories are complementary, and they share a common goal.
After you become comfortable with yum, you may want to explore yam http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/
This will aid you in maintaining your own repository as well as a local mirror of your favorite repositories. This way you can then host your own local software update server, and configure all your machines to use your own local yum repository.
Getting long winded here.... Once you get this far you will next configure a pxe kickstart server and things will start to look like a rudimentary altiris like implementation.
Sorry for getting carried away with the post. I have just gone through this process and found it very useful.
Robin,
Thanks for all the good info. That should be enough to get me started. So far, I've only run into a couple of pkgs that I had to pull from srpms, but that is not unusual, being that it is wx related software.
Sam
The most useful addition to your yum configuration will be the DAG repository.
Yust for completion ... DAG contains a few packages (newer versions) which replace your RHEL packages.
If you do not like this side efect use "exclude" in yum conf.
Petr Klíma
e-mail: qaxi@seznam.cz
On Monday 19 September 2005 00:32, Petr Klíma wrote:
The most useful addition to your yum configuration will be the DAG repository.
Yust for completion ... DAG contains a few packages (newer versions) which replace your RHEL packages.
If you do not like this side efect use "exclude" in yum conf.
or use apt-rpm with pinning :P
On 9/18/05, Black Hand yonsy@blackhandchronicles.homeip.net wrote:
On Monday 19 September 2005 00:32, Petr Klíma wrote:
Yust for completion ... DAG contains a few packages (newer versions) which replace your RHEL packages.
If you do not like this side efect use "exclude" in yum conf.
or use apt-rpm with pinning :P
Or use the yum plugins which provide "Version Lock" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_ca%7Clang_nl%7Clang_en%7Clang...
A yum equivalent to pinning.
Greg
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Black Hand wrote:
On Monday 19 September 2005 00:32, Petr Klíma wrote:
The most useful addition to your yum configuration will be the DAG repository.
Yust for completion ... DAG contains a few packages (newer versions) which replace your RHEL packages.
If you do not like this side efect use "exclude" in yum conf.
or use apt-rpm with pinning :P
Or lower the priority of the DAG repository.
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
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