[K12OSN] Retrieve DVD Player via Yum

[Steve Wright]

tnx Jim.

/steve

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 16:28, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-admin at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf
> Of Steve Wright
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 7:38 PM
> To: k12osn at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Retrieve DVD Player via Yum
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:25, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> > I hate when I find the answer myself minutes after posting to the 
> > list.
> >  
> > I just found on FreshRPMS a sample yum.conf and pulled the servers 
> > from their list and added it to mine and viola, it worked.  That sure 
> > made a tough project easy, I ran "yum install xine" and it was running
> 
> > in about 5 minutes.  Cool
> >  
> > Is there a reason that the LTSP default servers don't have as robust a
> 
> > library for apps as some others? It sure would have been handy if no 
> > config mods were necessary, but now I know how to solve it.
> 
> 
>   which yum.conf did you use ?  A URL?
> 
>   I used atrpms apt-get sources list to build a 
> Television/Multimedia/MythTV box from K12LTSP 4.0 and it works ok'ish,
> but it was fairly invasive.
> 
>   OT - BTW MythTV and/or TVTime is awesome, especially on my 21"
> Trinitron monitor.
> 
> 
> /steve
> ---------------------------
> 
> I used the following:
> [os]
> name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - os
> baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/os
> 
> [updates]
> name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates
> baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/updates
> 
> [freshrpms]
> name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
> baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
> 
> Not sure if it is right, but it seemed to work.
> 
> 
> 
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