On Sunday, July 26 2015, David Collier-Brown wrote:
On 07/26/2015 01:54 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
On Friday, July 24 2015, David Collier-Brown wrote:
For a long time, I've been using the Fedora XFCE spin, but wanted to build a new for-work dev machine and got RHEL 7.2, so I would have a supported version to host recent tools on. I think you meant RHEL-7.1, right? RHEL-7.2 has not been released yet. The download page said 7.1, but I included uname -a in the message, as it had said something else... $ uname -a Linux miles 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 15 21:38:46 EDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x
I see. The "7.2" you see there is an internal version number; this specific Linux kernel has been released for RHEL-7.1.
Fedora is fun, but tends to lag in app versions while being at the bleeding edge in kernel versions, which is fine for a toy machine, but the inverse of what I want for a machine to make money with.. 86_64 GNU/Linux Out of curiosity, why do you say that Fedora "tends to lag in app version"? The Linux kernel and the GNU toolchain are well maintained and up-to-date; popular desktop programs as well, at least in my experience.
At the time it's cut Fedora is up to date, but their stated policy is to not spend much time updating until the next release is cut. I'm constrained to use specific recent versions of Eclipse, Java and Scala for work, and I couldn't even get the previous (Luna) version of Eclipse until a kind chap created a custom repo of it for Fedora. Current release is Eclipse Mars, which installs without any pain on RHEL workstation. As you would expect.
Hm, I don't know about this policy (I am a heavy Fedora user and I maintain a few packages in the distro). The current release always gets tons of updates for the vast majority of the packages, and even the "older" releases also get a decent number of updates as well (assuming they have not been EOL'ed).
Alas, RHEL 7.2 seems to be much *more* broken than Fedora fc 21 Yum can't even do a groupinstall, Do you mean yum does not recognize the "groupinstall" command at all? As you have mentioned below, yum actually *can* do a groupinstall without problems.
No, I said *other folks* with earlier RHEL 7s could do a groupinstall:
Sorry, I was confused with your original sentence, and I thought you were not able to do a 'yum groupinstall' of any package.
I get $ sudo yum groupinstall Xfce [sudo] password for davecb: Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, subscription-manager Warning: group Xfce does not exist. No packages in any requested group available to install or update
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