FPL steps down: what's the real story?

Sam Sharpe lists.redhat at samsharpe.net
Thu Apr 1 22:43:18 UTC 2010


On 1 April 2010 23:35, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
>> On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>> > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own
>> > software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora.
>> >
>>
>> And I recently learned they don't even use yum! :-o
> ----
> well RHEL 4 doesn't but RHEL 5 does.
>
> You can install yum from CentOS 4 on RHEL 4 systems but you have to be
> vigilant about where packages are being installed from because RHEL 4
> doesn't have repo information for yum.

EPEL is a better place, as it's packages do not conflict with Red Hat ones.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/x86_64/repoview/yum.html

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Sam


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