Hi Ira, On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after kickstart gave me a hard (and weird) time, I finally have CENTOS-5 > installed automagically over the LAN with PXE. Since it's the target > platform of the product, it only makes sense the R&D do the building on > it. "DUH AKA" it features only a few of the tools they need and old > versions to boot, which means I'll be setting up all the machines to get > a common /opt from a remote machines with all the needed tools, that are > not available from CentOS or even the CentOS-plus repo, and turn the > CentOS machines into a nice workstation.
I hope you use the 5.1 Centos. Since I prefer Red Hat, I can talk about RH stuff. I'm sure others can speak of Ubuntu, SuSE etc... All you need to do is add 2 more repositories (judging by the packages names, I can understand that they really love KDE) 1. Go here (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/) and add this reporsitory. This should give you OOO, vlc, and other stuff. If you plan to use anything that requires an addition kernel module, you better use the dkms packages (like FUSE etc..) 2. For KDE applications, latest KDE (please DO NOT INSTALL KDE 4 on their workstations unless you really know well KDE and want to spend hours for trying to fix bugs. It's still not stable and I recommend to wait for 4.1) go here (http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/) and add the repository so you can get the stuff you want. 3. I would definitely recommend NOT to go with any fedora for their workstation since Fedora is a moving target and their "upgrade" process reminds me of upgrading from Windows 98 to XP, i.e: could make you cry. Red Hat tends to change things quite drastically between versions which would be a nightmare to upgrade few dozens of workstations. 4. I would definitely recommend setting up a local YUM/APT repository server with all the packages and point all the machines to it. Thanks, Hetz > So to my question: > > Before I get into endless tests of dependencies of those important bits > of the toolchains from RPMs intended for Fedora 5,6,7,8 or even > OpenSuSE, does anyone have a recommendation? Which RPMs (or debs! I > don't mind!) will work best with the base libraries of CentOS 5.1 and > still feature the latest versions? Would Etch match? Could Fedora fit? > Should Gutsy be considered? > > (tools they want, and most are not in CentOS, are vlc, OOO, kmtrace, > kompare, kregexpeditor, kate, kdesvn, doxygen, colorgcc and many other > such toys and tools) > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Court-appointed penguin > Ira Abramov > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
