Sooner or later everyone needs to install a package that is not included on the official installation CDs/DVD. Until now I just used rpmseek.com and Rpmfind.Net but of course this is far from optimal for security and compatibility to reasons.
So what is the recommended way to get and install "non official" packages that are not part of the repository?!
Thorsten
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:21 +0000, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
Sooner or later everyone needs to install a package that is not included on the official installation CDs/DVD. Until now I just used rpmseek.com and Rpmfind.Net but of course this is far from optimal for security and compatibility to reasons.
So what is the recommended way to get and install "non official" packages that are not part of the repository?!
Thorsten
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories .. and search if the package you want doesn't already exist in such third-party repositories .. Otherwise, try to find an existing SRPM that can be rebuild and/or submit a spec file ;-)
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
Sooner or later everyone needs to install a package that is not included on the official installation CDs/DVD. Until now I just used rpmseek.com and Rpmfind.Net but of course this is far from optimal for security and compatibility to reasons.
So what is the recommended way to get and install "non official" packages that are not part of the repository?!
Lots of extra repos listed here: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
If what you want isn't there, look for fedora source files (SRPMS) and rebuild: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/
Or create a package (if required) from source tarballs.
* Johnny Hughes (Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:41:25 -0600)
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
Sooner or later everyone needs to install a package that is not included on the official installation CDs/DVD. Until now I just used rpmseek.com and Rpmfind.Net but of course this is far from optimal for security and compatibility to reasons.
So what is the recommended way to get and install "non official" packages that are not part of the repository?!
Lots of extra repos listed here: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
Yes, thanks, rpmforge was what I was looking for...
Thorsten
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:14:31 -0000 Thorsten Kampe thorsten@thorstenkampe.de wrote:
Lots of extra repos listed here: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
I took a look at that web page it doesn't mention Dag Wieers: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/
Is there a reason for not including it?
on 2/18/2008 2:36 PM centos@911networks.com spake the following:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:14:31 -0000 Thorsten Kampe thorsten@thorstenkampe.de wrote:
Lots of extra repos listed here: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
I took a look at that web page it doesn't mention Dag Wieers: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/
Is there a reason for not including it?
Dag is one of several members that contribute/maintain Rpmforge. Everything in his repo "should" also be in rpmforge.
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
Sooner or later everyone needs to install a package that is not included on the official installation CDs/DVD. Until now I just used rpmseek.com and Rpmfind.Net but of course this is far from optimal for security and compatibility to reasons.
So what is the recommended way to get and install "non official" packages that are not part of the repository?!
There are some 3rd party repositories I trust - such as EPEL. I add their repo and yum install.
However - there are other packages not available.
I tend to grab the src.rpm - I then install the src.rpm in my local user directory and inspect the spec file. Often they need adjustment - especially if they use distro specific macros.
If I'm paranoid (don't trust the packager) I skim every patch and redownload the source from upstream.
Then I rebuild the src.rpm from my modified spec file - and then feed the rebuilt src.rpm through mock.
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