[WBEL-users] What do you think?

[Kerry Cox]

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Ahh... now I feel stupid. I hadn't thought to look at the main yum page
yet.=20
I've been needing to set up a local yum repository as I begin moving
boxes off of Red Hat 9 and onto Whitebox. Should make things easier and
faster.
Thanks again.
KJ


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:24, Steve Phillips wrote:
> Take a look at http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/ =
to see if it meets your needs.
> HTH!
> stevep
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerry Cox [mailto:kerry.cox@ksl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:52 PM
> To: Whitebox Linux Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] What do you think?
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> Kirby brings up a good point. If people are serious about maintaining
> Whitebox on their own networks, there ought to be some instructions
> regarding the creation and maintenance of a local yum repository. I have
> been meaning to do this for quite some time. But, I do not want to
> reinvent the wheel.=20
> Has anyone run across some simple documentation for setting up a local
> yum repository? Anyone willing to share this? If not, I'd be happy to
> create something fast in XML format and then publish in to HTML using
> DocBook. Or, if someone already has some instructions, send them my way
> and I'll publish it for everyone in HTML format.
> Thanks.
> KJ
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> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 11:17, Kirby Bohling wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:51:33AM -0700, scty Library wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > I am new to Whitebox.  I am experimenting with it and
> > > looking for an alternative to RHE for use in a public
> > > library.  We have been running RH for 4years so we do
> > > have some experience.  I would like to know what
> > > people think of WB.
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> > I'm new around here, but I've been using WhiteBox for the better
> > part of two weeks as my desktop OS.  I've been doing automated
> > installs for servers we are building for a couple of months.
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> > Couldn't be happier.  It's quick, and easy.  It's just like RedHat
> > 8/9 in my experience.  I haven't come across any show stoppers.
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> > Having every public mirror besides the primary (and incredibly slow)
> > mirror corrupted the day I did my desktop install was really
> > annoying, however, the problem appeared to work itself out.  Once I
> > get more machines converted over, I'll just rebuild my own yum
> > headers (right now my private mirror doesn't have yum-arch installed,
> > so I can't just yet).
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> > > Another question I have is that when I installed WB
> > > Linux , I noticed that the fonts where not as nice as
> > > RH9.  Did I do something wrong or is there something I
> > > have to still do.  I have check to see that I am using
> > > the best shapes and I am.
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> > I have had minor problems with fonts, but not the default ones that
> > are installed.  I've tried to do an build from SRPMS for
> > msttcorefonts-1.3-4.  That's a package available from Sourceforge.
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> > When I build the RPM's from the spec file that works.  When I try
> > and install that RPM on the same machine, it crashes RPM in various
> > nasty ways.  I gave up trying to figure it out.  I pulled an old RPM
> > I used to put it on a RedHat 9.0 box (built on a 9.0 box), and that
> > worked just fine.  It's against the license to distribute the RPM's,
> > otherwise I'd just post it for you.
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> > What app(s) are you having problems with the fonts?  What
> > language/typeface are you using?
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> > 	Thanks,
> > 		Kirby
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> > > Thanks all for you input.
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> > > Dominic Iadicicco
> > > South Country Library
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