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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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 ...<br>
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Thanks<br>
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On 24/02/12 02:31, Michael Vasiliev wrote:
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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.<br>
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On 02/24/2012 12:44 AM, Micha wrote:
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<p>I was just given a red hat enterprise 6 system to setup for a
project, only there is no repository setup on in and for this
project I need pretty bleeding edge software and software that
is not installed. Unfortunately for this project I come from a
debian background so I have no knowledge of the red hat
repository management world.</p>
<p>How do I setup a repository and which ones are available?</p>
<p>I need up to date boost libraries (1.46 and up) and hwloc at
the moment, not sure yet what else.</p>
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