Hi
I have 2 machines with RHEL 5.2 and I would like to use CentOS repos. I would like to know if the document "Using CentOS Repositories on RHEL Machines"[1] can be used in CentOS 5.2 without too much modifications.
Thanks
Marcelo
[1] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/YumOnRHEL
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:48:53AM +0000, Marcelo M. Garcia enlightened us:
I have 2 machines with RHEL 5.2 and I would like to use CentOS repos. I would like to know if the document "Using CentOS Repositories on RHEL Machines"[1] can be used in CentOS 5.2 without too much modifications.
Thanks
Marcelo
[1] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/YumOnRHEL
You shouldn't need to bother since RHEL 5 has yum. Just add your repo definitions into your /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
The only limitation I have been able to see with RHEL's yum is the lack of the priorities plugin. You can use protectbase as a replacement. If I get a chance today, maybe I'll try to update that wiki page.
Matt
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Matt Hyclak hyclak@ohio.edu wrote:
The only limitation I have been able to see with RHEL's yum is the lack of the priorities plugin. You can use protectbase as a replacement.
Well, sort of - priorities is far more flexible, so protectbase is sort of a crippled replacement at best.
But, at least it's there....
mhr
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:47:23AM -0700, MHR enlightened us:
The only limitation I have been able to see with RHEL's yum is the lack of the priorities plugin. You can use protectbase as a replacement.
Well, sort of - priorities is far more flexible, so protectbase is sort of a crippled replacement at best.
But, at least it's there....
Agreed, but because of the way the rhn plugin works in yum, you can't assign a priority to it. Apparently they've modified the plugin to set protect=1 on RHN channels, so if you add other repos and don't want core system packages replaced, set protect=0 and enable protectbase.
Matt
Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:48:53AM +0000, Marcelo M. Garcia enlightened us:
I have 2 machines with RHEL 5.2 and I would like to use CentOS repos. I would like to know if the document "Using CentOS Repositories on RHEL Machines"[1] can be used in CentOS 5.2 without too much modifications.
Thanks
Marcelo
[1] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/YumOnRHEL
You shouldn't need to bother since RHEL 5 has yum. Just add your repo definitions into your /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
The only limitation I have been able to see with RHEL's yum is the lack of the priorities plugin. You can use protectbase as a replacement. If I get a chance today, maybe I'll try to update that wiki page.
Matt
Hi
A basic question, is enough to copy the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ or is there another better way?
Thanks
Marcelo
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