Difference between revisions of "Repos"
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=== CentOS Repos === | === CentOS Repos === | ||
| − | + | These are description files in /etc/yum.repos.d | |
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| + | Red-Hat - many times, if you are careful and know what to look out for, you can use CentOS RPMs and get away with it. I've done this in instances where a customer has critical stuff running on an unlicensed copy of RedHat and they can't pull RPMs with yum from the RedHat repos. (Comments on this anyone?) | ||
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| + | See /etc/redhat-release (/etc/release) and then look in (Version 6.3 for example) | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | http://vault.centos.org/6.3/os/x86_64/Packages/ | ||
| + | </pre> | ||
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| + | The yum | ||
| + | --nogpgcheck (disable gpg signature checking) comes in handy when messing with RPMs this way | ||
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| + | For rpm it's | ||
| + | --nodigest don't verify package digest(s) | ||
| + | --nosignature don't verify package signature(s) | ||
=== Debian Repos === | === Debian Repos === | ||
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=== Ubuntu Repos === | === Ubuntu Repos === | ||
| − | [http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Template:U_Natty/Repositories Natty Repos] - this link points to a Natty document, but at the time the link was added, the site had repo information for many other releases as well. Instructions for adding/managing repos as well. | + | [http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Template:U_Natty/Repositories Natty Repos] - this link points to a '''Natty''' document, but at the time the link was added, the site had repo information for many other releases as well. Instructions for adding/managing repos as well. |
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| + | Note: since Natty is old, the ''backports'' repository might be key... | ||
| − | === Xubuntu === | + | === Xubuntu Repos === |
TBD | TBD | ||
