Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/16/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: >> > How can I be sure of the dependencies? >> > What yum command would I run afterwards? >> > How do I get updates to this rpm over time? >> > >> > thanks! >> >> jpackage offers a yum repository. You'll need to set that up if you >> want to update from their packages. As for the java rpm. You're on >> your own for that one. Sun has yet to set up a java repository, and >> their license is such that we cannot. > > Revisiting this after many months... Is it still true that every user > has to track when > Sun and jpackage issue matching updates and get them separately the > hard way... Are you talking about j2re or other java software? I believe you can acquire Java j2re updates from one of the third-party CentOS repositories, such as DAG/rpmforge. Manually download: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/j2re/ To add the DAG repo permanently (and thus get any updates provided by the repo provider): http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B On my server machines I usually explicitly include only the packages I want from the 3rd party repo. This helps me keep straight which packages are fully supported by the distro and which ones I had to go looking for. To tell yum that you only want to update j2re, just add one line to /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo includepkgs=j2re Dan Stoner Network Administrator Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida