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

[Simon Lukasik]

On 08/25/2014 02:08 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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.
>

I believe the said repository has been discontinued.

In some point of time the need for the custom repository diminished, 
perhaps when we have bugfixed OpenSCAP in RHEL. Since then, there was no 
need for content authors to have the latest-greatest.

Thanks!

-- 
Simon Lukasik
Security Technologies, Red Hat, Inc.