| mishehu | what is the preferred way to keep a system up-to-date? up2date? yum? excuse the newb question, I come from a world without this type of package management. |
| so_ | mishehu, yum is the Centos updater you can use up2date if you like, but ultimately on Centos it would use yum as it's backend |
| jbt | mishehu: do yourself a favor by reading man yum first, to avoid the usual pitfull |
| mishehu | ugh, these putzes at dotster's vps hosting site couldn't install centos if their life counted on it. they didn't put either one on. "let's give you root access to a system, but make you jump hoops in order to install anything on it, including subversion" thanks for the pointer guys I'll put together the dependencies for yum from the centos 4 install. at least they put rpm on the system... |
| so_ | mishehu, many vpses either have their own updating system, or they remove the standard utils because of heavy customizing or reason X, Y or Z, I don't know for sure |
| mishehu | ah ok. well if they don't want you to do that level of customizing they should out a policy about that. heh. they didn't. as it was I had a heck of a time getting php5 on it. |
| so_ | you might not even have rpm, although it's fun to play with rpm2cpio for that :) |
| mishehu | nah, I do have rpm. I just had a heck of a time finding the right rpms for php5. heh. |
| so_ | ah, there is a repo that is hosting php5 rpms I can't recall which one CentosPlus I think |
| mishehu | I already forgot where I got them from, but that might be it. donno why they didn't call it Centos++ ;-) hmm since when does subversion have a dependency on guile? odd. I've built that from source several times... hmm that yum does make it nice though. |
| jbt | mishehu: put something, protect plugin for yum if ever you intend to use other repos |
| mishehu | jbt: I'll try to avoid doing that for now. what does the protect plugin do? |
| jbt | mishehu: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/ProtectBase |
| mishehu | jbt: thanks for the tip |
| jbt | np |
| fatalexe | uh, I just got done telling the javascript channel how centos was the only operating system this computer would run with. I think I need to get some sleep. |
| mishehu | heh, didn't know there was a javascript specific channel thought it was just all under #web. |
| fatalexe | Well, i'm wrestling with doing a php/mysql HTM_AJAX app for a final project for my associates in programming. Just got subversion working, trying to wrestle up a good first commit Hosting it at home from my dsl has been great. ^.^ I feel sorry for all the other students using XAMPP and whatnot win32 server junk.... |
| mishehu | svn commit -m "Commit me to the insane asylum! ha ha hee hee ho ho!" |
| action | mishehu grins. |
| mishehu | grins. |
| fatalexe | Wouldn't that be the code to pay-pals credit card payment gateway? |
| JoBbZ | Is there a web searchable list of the RPMs included in CentOS? In particular, I'm looking for tomcat, jboss, and mod_jk |
| peerce | there's no java other than gcc-java in centos, as its not GPL |