[LUNI] A little lost with Redhat 4.0 ES

[Ramin K]

Demetri Mouratis wrote:
> Hi Ramin,
> 
> I think I can help.  Answers inline below:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Ramin K wrote:
> 
>> 1. Where are all the packages?
>>     Looking for things like imagemagick, lame, ffmpeg, mplayer, etc. 
>> up2date -l doesn't really find anything which seems odd. Is this some 
>> channel problem, do I need to setup some yum thing, just track all 
>> these down individually, or build them myself.
> 
> RHEL tends to be pretty sparse with package support.  ImageMagick is 
> there, note the caps.  I have lame installed from the DAG repository, 
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/yum/.  I'm also using ffmeg and mplayer 
> though the developers here package that as part of our SVN repository.  
> As you've said, we use a custom yum repository to make these available 
> to our systems.

Ah good info and nice to know that update -l is case sensitive which I 
wasn't expecting since it's just asking for a list.

	Is official RHN, coupled with 3rd party yum of common packages, plus an 
in house yum repository for uncommon packages best practices at this 
point? I want to make sure I'm approaching this problem with the right 
philosophy.

	I'm assuming Yahoo! has their stuff on a repository if I can convince 
someone to give me access, but I'll be stuck building the majority 
packages I need for the time being. Is there a nice yum archive that 
people suggest or are they all in some sort of sync?

Thanks again,
Ramin