Hi hersh, See my detailed answer on this subject on Rocks mailing list (October 26) : https://lists.sdsc.edu/pipermail/npaci-rocks-discussion/2010-October/049657.html I did nothing in yum.conf. I am using Rocks 5.3 at this moment : # cat yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 assumeyes=1 [Rocks-5.3] name=Rocks 5.3 baseurl=http://10.1.1.1/install/rocks-dist/x86_64 Alain Le 21/03/2011 18:39, hersh parikh a écrit : > Yes Alain is absolutely right about ROCKS. > > @Alain: Thanks for the information. We'll check what we have in stand > alone CentOS.BTW what do you have in yum.conf file? > > Regards > Hersh > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Alain Péan <alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr> > *To:* CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > *Sent:* Monday, 21 March 2011 7:00 PM > *Subject:* Fw: [CentOS] Add repo for xfig package > > Le 21/03/2011 13:47, Drew a écrit : > >> You don't have your "base" CentOS repository configured. What have you > >> done to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo, or have you been doing > >> something strange to /etc/yum.conf? And what is this "Rocks-5.4" > >> repository? > > Rocks 5.4 is a recompile of CentOS 5 oriented towards compute clusters. > > Rocks 5.4 is not a recompile of CentOS 5, it uses CentOS as its base > distribution, and add configuration, database, tools, MPI, batch job > scheduler etc..., for HPC calculation. > > As a yum update may break the configuration, /etc/yum.repos.d/ is empty > by default. > > I use myself Rocks, an I populate /etc/yum/repos.d/ by copying what I > have on other CentOS workstations, but avoid to do any update. > > With Rocks, you do update by upgrading to the newest version (which > would be Rocks 5.5, based on CentOS 5.6...). > > Alain > > -- > ========================================================== > Alain Péan - LPP/CNRS > Administrateur Système/Réseau > Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas - UMR 7648 > Observatoire de Saint-Maur > 4, av de Neptune, Bat. A > 94100 Saint-Maur des Fossés > Tel : 01-45-11-42-39 - Fax : 01-48-89-44-33 > ========================================================== > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ========================================================== Alain Péan - LPP/CNRS Administrateur Système/Réseau Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas - UMR 7648 Observatoire de Saint-Maur 4, av de Neptune, Bat. A 94100 Saint-Maur des Fossés Tel : 01-45-11-42-39 - Fax : 01-48-89-44-33 ========================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110321/ab1a8b0f/attachment-0017.html> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos