I am new to CentOS. I mostly use Fedora Core. I installed the CentOS 5 Beta on a test machine from the DVD. I configured it with both KDE and Gnome. I am using the default YUM configurtion which loaded with the DVD.
Unlike FC7T2, CentOS 5 Beta does not seem to pick up Yum updates. Is this by design or do I need to add repos to my /etc/yum.repos.d?
Thanks for any suggestions
Bob Styma
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:56:32AM -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) enlightened us:
I am new to CentOS. I mostly use Fedora Core. I installed the CentOS 5 Beta on a test machine from the DVD. I configured it with both KDE and Gnome. I am using the default YUM configurtion which loaded with the DVD.
Unlike FC7T2, CentOS 5 Beta does not seem to pick up Yum updates. Is this by design or do I need to add repos to my /etc/yum.repos.d?
Thanks for any suggestions
You are using a beta. There are no updates. Once the final is released, you will get updates as usual without any extra configuration.
Matt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
I am new to CentOS. I mostly use Fedora Core. I installed the CentOS 5 Beta on a test machine from the DVD. I configured it with both KDE and Gnome. I am using the default YUM configurtion which loaded with the DVD.
Unlike FC7T2, CentOS 5 Beta does not seem to pick up Yum updates. Is this by design or do I need to add repos to my /etc/yum.repos.d?
Of course it does just like Fedora.
#cd /etc/yum.repos.d
Edit Centos-base.repo and enable any repos you want.
Unlike Fedora all the main repos are in this file.
Then #yun update
That's it.
Currently there's only 2 updates available from my mirror.
Tony
Thanks for any suggestions
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Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
Unlike FC7T2, CentOS 5 Beta does not seem to pick up Yum updates. Is this by design or do I need to add repos to my /etc/yum.repos.d?
The beta does not receive any updates. The final CentOS 5 will receive updates without fiddling with the configuration.
Had you read the Release Notes, you might have found the following paragraph in there:
- Security and Bugfix's
This is a beta frozen release. Which implies there are known security issues with packages in this release, and there will be no updates provided in order to resolve those issues. This release is *NOT* meant to be used in production and there are no upgrade paths guaranteed from this release to the final product, although efforts will be made to try and facilitate that. As a user, you should consider this beta release as unsuitable for deployment but usable in a test environment to look at new technologies and changes in the distribution since CentOS-4. We envision the Final release to be significantly different to this beta, however none of the functionality present here should go away.
Cheers,
Ralph
Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
Unlike FC7T2, CentOS 5 Beta does not seem to pick up Yum updates. Is this by design or do I need to add repos to my /etc/yum.repos.d?
The beta does not receive any updates. The final CentOS 5 will receive updates without fiddling with the configuration.
Had you read the Release Notes, you might have found the following paragraph in there:
I confess to not reading all the release notes. My interest in the CentOS beta came from the fact that a number of things which were broken going from FC4 to FC6 which annoyed me. I discovered that FC7T2 maintains the broken state (there are open bugzillas) and CentOS 5 inherits them.
In particular. The gnome applets which show CPU/disk/network/etc. utilization have a hover popup which shows the numeric value. Prior to FC6, it changed once a second if you hovered the cursor. It no longer updates. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217440
Updates to gnome startup cause multiple occurances of some applications to be ignored. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341286
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:58:14 -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
I confess to not reading all the release notes. My interest in the CentOS beta came from the fact that a number of things which were broken going from FC4 to FC6 which annoyed me. I discovered that FC7T2 maintains the broken state (there are open bugzillas) and CentOS 5 inherits them.
There is always some hope that the CentOS team incorporates bug fixes one way of another. For example, I and many other suffered from a bug in the kernel cifs module that caused kernel oops/system crash. This prevented us from using kernel 2.6.18 (thus FC6 was a big no-no). I offered any help I could provide to the samba programmers and they finally came up with the fix. FC5 and FC6 were patched but, unfortunately, it was too late to be included in RHEL5 (and CentOS5 will inherit it). However, CentOS has some flexibility to take the fix in as you can see in the bug report:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1776
So, if you are lucky enough to find a fix for the problem you have, try reporting to the CentOS team.
My best, Akemi
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