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List:       jpackage-discuss
Subject:    Re: [JPackage-discuss] JPackage integration with CentOS 5 / RHEL 5
From:       "Jason Corley" <jason.corley () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-01-08 19:36:21
Message-ID: 3118d8de0801081136r7233886di9a31f6fb1e3f71e6 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Yeah protectbase or priorities yum plugins ought to do the trick.
Unfortunately for you neither appear to be part of EPEL or RHEL 5
proper.  Se la vie.
Jason

On Jan 8, 2008 2:25 PM, Julian Dunn <Julian_Dunn@cbc.ca> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2008 at  2:02 PM, "Jason Corley" <jason.corley@gmail.com> \
> > > > wrote:
> 
> > My first answer is "don't let junior sysadmins use yum" and don't let
> > people apply updates that haven't gone through your testing phase.  As
> > an example I keep a private repository of a subset of JPackage for my
> > work purposes, when I want to update something I first copy it to that
> > private repo, test it, then deploy.
> > 
> > The second more useful answer is to use the yum basearchonlyn plugin
> > (I think that's the name).
> 
> You mean protectbase?
> 
> > As far as compatibility between JPackage and RHEL 5, that is in the
> > eye of the beholder.  Personally I'd recommend using one or the other,
> > not both, for your Java needs.  That may just be personal preference
> > though, in theory they ought to work fine together.
> 
> We'd like to bias towards using RedHat packages first, so that they can be counted \
> on for support if it comes to that... but it's good to know that they should \
> co-exist. The reason we can't just choose one or the other is that some tools that \
> our developers need (like Maven/Maven 2) are available only in JPackage, which \
> opens up this can of worms. 
> - Julian
> 
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