On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 18:45 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On 1 April 2010 15:35, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:13 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > >> On 1 April 2010 14:46, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Red Hat is a different company, has their own mail lists, their own > >> > software packaging, etc. This has nothing to do with Fedora. > >> > > >> > >> And I recently learned they don't even use yum! :-o > > ---- > > well RHEL 4 doesn't but RHEL 5 does. > > > > You can install yum from CentOS 4 on RHEL 4 systems but you have to be > > vigilant about where packages are being installed from because RHEL 4 > > doesn't have repo information for yum. > > > > Thanks for correcting me. :) Learned something new again! I deal with > Scientific Linux 4 and 5 systems on a regular basis, hence my surprise > about this piece of information. Any particular reason for this > difference? ---- Scientific Linux does pretty much the same as CentOS and they all seemed to follow the path of the progenitor, whiteboxlinux. The RHEL releases prior to version 5 simply used the 'up2date' tool which has a vastly different structure than yum's repo structure. Whiteboxlinux and the various rebuilds of RHEL used the yum tool I suppose because it was pretty well established (Fedora and the RHL that preceded Fedora) had been using it for some time. I think Red Hat probably decided that the open source development of yum made more long term sense and implemented in RHEL 5 instead of another round of 'up2date'. ---- > PS: I know my questions are probably OT, but its better than a flame > war on a vaguely relevant thread. ;) ---- no flame wars... just reactions to someone who wants to use this list as a political soapbox for his theories on the way things should be. Not the first and obviously won't be the last. Maybe if he actually participated in the process of software development, either by coding or bug reporting he would begin to understand what is actually involved and transition from irrelevant theory to relevant discourse. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
