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I don't mind installing from anything that is compatible, I do need
something new enough though to install from in the first place. I
just don't know what are the compatibilities and repository versions
with red hat and what I believe are it's relatives, Fedora and
centos. I would have put debian unstable with a touch of experimental on this machine, but it came preinstalled with red hat, so I'm seeing if I can make it work before I swap hard drives. Not sure it it's the smartest approach, but we'll see. I recall running into upgrade dependency hell last time I was with red hat about ten years ago (before yum was invented), and I'm aware of care that should be taken with debian and debian vs ubuntu as well, which is why I'm being cautious trying not to shoot myself in the foot before I start ... Thanks On 24/02/12 02:31, Michael Vasiliev wrote: Are you sure you can't make a chimera install by salvaging packages off corresponding version of Fedora? In case it's not the way, creating your own repository is surprisingly doable. Googling for "yum repository" gave me enough hints when I had to do that. You're looking at some maintainer work (editing specfiles and recompiling the source package) every time the dependencies for your packages change, however.
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