On Tue, 4 May 2004, Peter J. Mignone wrote:
> Hi All:
> My name is Peter J. Mignone and I have a little Linux experience. From
what
> I have read about CentOS, it appears very interesting so I am trying it
out.
Welcome
> I get a header.info error when I tried yum which I have never used.
> How do you set up yum? Where do you point it, etc.?
If you did a CD based install, it should already be installed
and configured properly -- is your network interface up, and
does it have access to a working DNS and outside connectivity?
> If my understanding is correct about the licensing, I should turn off
> anything pertaining to the Red Hat Network. Is there anything else that
> should be removed?
Nothing sould should be accessing Red Hat corporate restricted
resources -- if you find a usage pattern in the install which
does, it is a bug and we wish to fix it; a bugzilla (which is
the Open Source way of tracking issues) is available at:
http://bugzilla.caosity.org/ to receive reports.
> Is there any restrictions on rpm for Red Hat enterprise. In other words,
If
> I find a rpm on say rpmfind.net for red hat could it be used?
You may be confusing rpm (the package manager) and the
content rpms (binary packagings of applications and so forth)
-- using rpmfind.net is probably not the best way to proceed
-- if you have a need which is not in the add-ons, please
mention it on this mailing list, and it will probably get
built for you on a centos-31 native environment.
that said, as to content which is provided through the CentOS
subproject of the cAos meta-project, there will be no such
restriction.
As you get more comfortable with source packages, it is
possible to do this yourself -- the IRC channels mentioned at
the website are full of prople to assist in a knowledge
transfer and empowerment of this type.
-- Russ Herrold
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