[ale] How do people deal with RHEL?

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 11:39 -0400, James Sumners wrote: 
> [1] yields results for RHEL5 and Fedora 10 -- I need RHEL4. There is
> an RPM available at [2], but I have no idea if I can trust the
> repository. I'm not very keen on installing binaries from random
> public repositories.
> 
> As for the software being supported, that is a non-issue. They can
> provide a base repository of software that they will actively support
> and a repository that contains software you can use on your own. The
> benefit would be that the packages are built and maintained by the
> company, and you can trust them.

Except for the fact that, well, they don't provide a repo of unsupported
software.  Hummers are nice, but they could have made it have 32 mpg,
except, of course, they did not. 
> 
> [1] -- http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ntop&submit=Search+...&system=&arch=i386
> [2] -- http://packages.sw.be/ntop/
> 
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Don Lachlan
> <ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:51 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I mean really, this stupid distribution doesn't even include useful tools:
> >
> > I've said the same thing about SuSE and Ubuntu - any commercial
> > distribution is going to pare down their supported software, although
> > there are usually "unsupported" community methods to install whatever
> > you want.
> >
> > I will often search via RPMfind, then pick whatever repo seems most
> > reliable. I've used Dag's work before and found it to be good:
> >
> > http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/dag/redhat/el5/i386/ntop-3.3.8-2.el5.rf.i386.html
> > http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/
> >
> > And "back in my day", I had to install gtar if I wanted "z" as an
> > option to tar, since that was a GNU extension and Solaris ignored GNU
> > and used their own old-school (and always backward compatible!)
> > utilities. :)
> >
> > -Lachlan
> 
> 

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