I've been using Red Hat and its derivatives since RH4.2. I use Fedora Core 6 for all of my desktop machines, but I decided to go for Centos 5 for my new colo web server.
So I've just taken delivery of a new Centos 5 virtual server from Bytemark (http://bytemark.co.uk/) and I'm trying to get it set up with all the RPMs that I'm used to from FC6.
As I understand it, the Centos Extras repository at http://centos.karan.org/ is the equivalent of Fedora Extras, so I've downloaded and installed the *.repo file from that site.
But I still don't seem to have access to all of the RPMs that I was hoping for. I was particularly looking for the Perl CPAN modules that are part of Fedora Extras. Very few of those seem to be available.
Am I just too early? Is the Centos Extras repository not quite ready for Centos 5 yet? Or is there a technical reason why the Fedora Extras RPMs can't be rebuilt for Centos? Or do I need to configure yum for a different repository?
if I have to rebuild the RPMs myself, then I'm quite happy to do that. I just wondered if they would become available automatically if I waited a while. There's no real hurry to get this server up.
Cheers,
Dave...
You might want to try the DAG RPM Repository:
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php
hth
On May 10, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
I've been using Red Hat and its derivatives since RH4.2. I use Fedora Core 6 for all of my desktop machines, but I decided to go for Centos 5 for my new colo web server.
So I've just taken delivery of a new Centos 5 virtual server from Bytemark (http://bytemark.co.uk/) and I'm trying to get it set up with all the RPMs that I'm used to from FC6.
As I understand it, the Centos Extras repository at http://centos.karan.org/ is the equivalent of Fedora Extras, so I've downloaded and installed the *.repo file from that site.
But I still don't seem to have access to all of the RPMs that I was hoping for. I was particularly looking for the Perl CPAN modules that are part of Fedora Extras. Very few of those seem to be available.
Am I just too early? Is the Centos Extras repository not quite ready for Centos 5 yet? Or is there a technical reason why the Fedora Extras RPMs can't be rebuilt for Centos? Or do I need to configure yum for a different repository?
if I have to rebuild the RPMs myself, then I'm quite happy to do that. I just wondered if they would become available automatically if I waited a while. There's no real hurry to get this server up.
Cheers,
Dave... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 5/10/07, Dianne Yumul dianne@wellsgaming.com wrote:
You might want to try the DAG RPM Repository:
Oh. Interesting idea. On Fedora I tend to avoid Dag's repository because (as I understand it) it's incompatible with Livna. But on this server I don't need Livna, so Dag is a definite possibility.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Dave...
Dave Cross wrote:
As I understand it, the Centos Extras repository at http://centos.karan.org/ is the equivalent of Fedora Extras, so I've downloaded and installed the *.repo file from that site.
But I still don't seem to have access to all of the RPMs that I was hoping for. I was particularly looking for the Perl CPAN modules that are part of Fedora Extras. Very few of those seem to be available.
That repository is still not complete for CentOS 5 yet (am I right, Karanbir?)
Please see http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories for more information.
Cheers,
Ralph
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