updates

[Ed Wilts]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:43:40AM -0700, Larry D Sorensen wrote:
> Can you tell me more about yum and how it would work?

I'm doing this from the top of my head and it's untested, so with that
in mind...

The yum home page is at http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

1.  Install the yum rpm from
http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/taolinux/tao-1.0-i386/RPMS.updates/yum-2.0.8-TL3.noarch.rpm

2. You will probably also need tao-release and the tao-yumconf package.
They're in the same directory as the yum package above.

3.  Install all 3 packages.  Remove the protectbase entry from yum.conf

4.  # yum update

Yum won't install anything unless you confirm the operation first so
this should be a safe thing to do.  The first time it runs, it grabs all
the headers just like up2date does.

Since you're grabbing the packages from Tao, you should read up on tao
from http://www.taolinux.org.  There are mailing lists there too.

        .../Ed
 
> Thanks. 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:12:19 -0600 Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:02:50AM -0700, Larry D Sorensen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Where can I find updated packages for my Linux WS3 now that my
> > > subscription has run out?
> > 
> > You can go to one of the RHEL rebuild sites like Tao, Centos, White 
> > Box
> > Linux, etc.  I think (but haven't tested this) if you set up the 
> > yum
> > updates from something like Tao and edit the yum.conf file to remove 
> > the
> > protectbase variable, you'll clobber the older Red Hat packages with 
> > any
> > newly released Tao packages.  By default, Tao won't overwrite Red 
> > Hat
> > packages.
> > 
> > Alternatively, you can go to RHN and pay to renew your 
> > subscription...
> > This is guaranteed to work.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ed Wilts, RHCE
> > Mounds View, MN, USA
> > mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
> > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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