[WBEL-users] updates

[Thomas E Dukes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean Lee [mailto:jean.lee at free.fr] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:26 AM
> To: Thomas E Dukes
> Cc: whitebox-users at beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] updates
> 
> Thomas E Dukes wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >Being new to WBEL I was wondering why there are numerous updates to 
> >RHEL but not for WBEL.  Can I d/l the .srpm's from Redhat 
> and compile them myself?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >
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> There are updates for WBEL too but you can't access RHEL 
> repositories to update your system.
> You can use yum or up2date like with RHEL but you have to 
> configure them in order to access WBEL update repositories.
> 
> Personnaly, I am using yum :
> 
> take a look at /etc/yum.conf and configure it to make it 
> pointing to one of the update mirror available here :
> 
> http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/download.html
> 
> then type :
> 
> yum upgrade

Thanks, I'll take a look at this.  I had numerous problems with yum after
upgrading to Fedora 4 from Fedora 2.  It thought I was running Fedora 3.
That was one of my decisions to go with WBEL.

Thanks
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Jean
> 
>