Hi Ira, >From my experience, most of the binaries you need are already packaged by someone.
As Hetz mentions, dag is a good place to start, epel is another good source and I would also recommend atrpms. but you should be careful about mixing them too much as I'm not sure if they don't have any issues when mixing them together. best practice, as Hetz said is to setup your own yum repo (very simple btw) and put the rpms that you really need in - this can ensure that you have the same version of the binary in all of your machines (it could be that when you install your first and last computer, the version has changed on the official repo server). in the worst case that you don't find an rpm for your version of centos, it is simple enough to download the fedora SRPM and rebuild it for your host, I've done it more than once and its relatively save. I would recommend against an /opt for normal binaries that could be managed though rpms, its usually faster to run them from the local disk and brings less complexity later on. Ohad On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:49 AM, 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. > > 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] > >
