[WBEL-users] updates

[Thomas E Dukes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org 
> [mailto:whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of Greg Knaddison
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:40 AM
> To: whitebox-users at beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] updates
> 
> On 6/29/05, Jean Lee <jean.lee at free.fr> wrote:
> > Thomas E Dukes wrote:
> > >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?
> <snip>
>  >
> > >
> > >
> > There are updates for WBEL too but you can't access RHEL 
> repositories 
> > to update your system.
> 
> The original question is about downloading the srpms from 
> redhat, so that Thomas could rebuild them himself rather than 
> relying on John to do that (I will rely on John since I'm not 
> interested in doing the rebuild myself).  So, the answer to 
> that question is that the SRPMs are always available, that's 
> how John gets them :)
> 
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS/
> 
> You can dig around up a level or two to find different architectures. 
> I will warn that not all packages perfectly compile, at least 
> that's what I've heard from John and various other rebuilders.

Yes, I know.  I tried to rebuild the firefox srpm but could never get it to
compile.   I forget the exact error but I do remember I had the lib it
needed but it just couldn't find it for some reason.

Thanks
> 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> In general, "yum upgrade" or (more typically appropriate) "yum update"
> will take care of updating a system.  I think that there were 
> some problems with the yum.conf in the original version of 
> manifest-destiny which have been detailed on the last in the 
> last few months.  You can browse the archives to find the solutions.
> 
> regards,
> Greg
> 
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