[Open-scap] Problems installing OpenSCAP on Amazon Linux?

[Steve Grubb]

On Saturday, August 23, 2014 03:38:26 PM Greg Elin wrote:
> A colleague asked me if OpenSCAP would work on Amazon Linux. I said I'd
> try...
> 
> Has anyone done this? My initial attempt failed because the OpenSCAP repos
> were not found by running Yum on AWS Linux.
> 
> - EPEL shows up as installed
> - Amazon has prioritization turned on for their repos, but I tried a
> `yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel" list available | grep openscap`
> with no results.
> 
> I have more information from attempts, but before sharing additional
> details, I thought I would ask if anyone had experience...

Packages cannot be both in RHEL and EPEL at the same time. So, EPEL is not 
where I would look. There was a personal repo that had been used in the past 
so that a newer more correct copy could be passed out for content authoring 
prior to achieving the SCAP certification. No idea if its still in business.

-Steve