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[nycphp-talk] yum (was: CakePHP 1.2 wanted...)

David Mintz dmintz at davidmintz.org
Thu Sep 28 09:45:10 EDT 2006


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, csnyder wrote:

> On 9/27/06, David Mintz <dmintz at davidmintz.org> wrote:
> > I downloaded the svn 1.4.0 tarball and the deps
>
> Out of curiousity, did you try 'yum install subversion'?

[david at mintz cake]$ sudo yum install subversion
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
dries                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
rpmforge                  100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
newrpms.sunsite.dk        100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
[david at mintz cake]$ sudo yum update subversion
[bla bla bla]
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

> Svn, apr, neon, etc seem to be updated on a regular basis, and having
> the packages installed would free you from having to recompile with
> each new release... 'yum update' and you're done.

You would think. That's the whole point, ain't it.

> yum is the best thing to happen to red hat, ever.

Historically it's been good to me, but lately I get disappointed a lot.
Might it have to do with the phasing-out of FC 4? Maybe the entries in my
/etc/yum.repos.d are wanting.

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