Now that fc2 is retired, is there any valid yum repos?

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet)]

Gene Heskett wrote:

>> Is this a desktop workstation or a server? If this is a workstation
>> or a non-production server, why not just go with the Fedora flow? I
>> run Fedora Core 5 on my workstation and it's working just fine.
>>
>> If you really don't like upgrading your OS every couple of months I'd
>> backup my data and do a fresh install of CentOS 4.4.
>
> The last centos I pulled was 4.3 just a month ago, the kernel was  
> in the
> 2.6.9.  Thats at least a year old, and ieee1394 support is broken,  
> still
> is for that matter.  Thats one thing I do keep up with, currently  
> running
> 2.6.18-rc7.

It's an enterprise OS, so don't expect the latest versions of  
packages in the official repositories. There are extra repositories  
that do provide newer packages (centos-plus et al). And you can  
always roll your own kernel if you need too. I'd just get a base  
system that fits most of your needs.

> Is it new enough that I can then build a current kernel and install  
> all of
> kino-0.8 and its utils, or am I headed (again) for dependency hell  
> trying
> to edit a wedding from my firewire equipt movie camera and burn a  
> vcd of
> it?  That would be the target job for me at the moment, the rest is
> convienience stuff.  This is the only box with a firewire card  
> installed,
> and the rest are slower boxes.

I just use CentOS for servers, so I wouldn't know how kino is doing  
on CentOS, but the things you want to do (multimedia, firewire,  
movies) sound like you'd be better off with a Fedora upgrade. Is  
something keeping you from upgrading your FC2 install to a newer  
Fedora release? FC5 has a 2.6.17 kernel and probably the latest  
versions of packages, unless you compile everything yourself anyway.

> I didn't know centos-4.4 was out, I may fire up azureas and nuke  
> the 4.3
> dvd images I have now.

Looking at the number of packages at http://mirror.centos.org/ 
centos-4/4.4/updates/i386/RPMS/ I wouldn't bother. Just install 4.3  
and run a quick yum update to get to 4.4.

Nils Breunese.