CentOS - Mar 2007 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and CentOS 5 extras packages

Hi,

In the advent of RHEL5 and CentOS 5, I've been rebuilding the RPMforge 
packages for EL5. You can find these at the usual location[*]. A few 
points though:

 + Not all RPMforge packages are available at this time

 + If you find a package that you need and isn't there, please do look at 
   the buildlogs and send me instructions on how to fix this specific 
   build. (Saves us time having to go through it ourselves)

 + Upgrading from RHEL4 to RHEL5 using Anaconda does work. Even when 
   people do not recommend it for various reasons. You should be able to 
   update your packages directly to EL5. If you find that some EL4 
   package is not replace by its EL5 counterpart, let me know.

 + If you see FC6 tagged packages, don't panic ! These are official 
   RHEL5 packages. RPMforge does not provide fc6-tagged packages for
   RHEL5. ANd we do not recommend installing these (even if they seem to 
   work).

Enjoy RHEL5 !

PS To me it looks like it could finally replace the current desktop OS of 
relatives. (low-risk updates, security fixes for 7 years, no changing parts)

[*] http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/
    http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/
    http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/repodata/

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

On 3/14/07, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
>
>  + Upgrading from RHEL4 to RHEL5 using Anaconda does work. Even when
>    people do not recommend it for various reasons. You should be able to
>    update your packages directly to EL5.
For the record, upgrading via "yum upgrade" does not appear to work.
I proceeded as follows (using vmware so I could revert snapshots if
anything went wrong):

: mv /etc/yum.repos.d /etc/yum.repos.d.CentOS4
: rpm -Uvh centos-release-4.92-4.i386.rpm
: cp /etc/yum.repos.d.CentOS4/rpmforge.repo /etc/yum.repos.d
: yum upgrade yum

The end result (half an hour of dependency resolution later) is 27
packages that have dependencies on at least 30 other packages that are
not available, plus 2 conflicts.  So I tried a straight

: yum upgrade

which leaves me with the following:

Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
Error: Package VFlib2 needs libttf.so.2, this is not available.
Error: Package crypto-utils needs libnewt.so.0.51, this is not available.
Error: Package subversion needs libaprutil-0.so.0, this is not available.
Error: Package kudzu needs kernel < 2.6.13, this is not available.
Error: Package seamonkey needs seamonkey-nss = 1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos,
this is not available.
Error: Package seamonkey needs seamonkey-nspr = 1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos,
this is not available.
Error: Package subversion needs libapr-0.so.0, this is not available.
Error: Package autofs needs kernel < 2.6.17, this is not available.
Error: Package wine-core needs /usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage, this is not available.
Error: Package hal needs kernel < 2.6.17, this is not available.
Error: Package initscripts needs kernel < 2.6.12, this is not available.
Error: Package subversion needs libneon.so.24, this is not available.
Error: Package newt-perl needs libnewt.so.0.51, this is not available.
Error: Package nfs-utils needs libevent-1.1a.so.1, this is not available.

Ed Greshko spake the following on 3/14/2007 9:51 AM:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
>> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
> 
> Thanks for all of your work.  But, please realize that you can only get
> 2 out of 3 of your wishes granted.
And the thank you counts as one of them. But if you get unlimited power, you
can command the rest! ;-P


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