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Re: getting systemtap installed from development repository
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: William Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>
- Cc: SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:31:35 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: getting systemtap installed from development repository
> Some people have had problems installing the systemtap rpm in FC4 due to
> the new and improved elfutils really being in the development branch of
> the repository rather than the FC4 branch of the repository.
What rpm are you talking about? The rawhide rpms are not fit for
installing on a non-rawhide system, of course. That's why I set us up to
make FC-4 rpms as well. We can distribute those if people want them.
> Below is the magic yum command to point yum at the appropriate place:
>
> # yum --enablerepo=development install systemtap
>
> This is more likely to give people more success in installing the
> systemtap rpm. Give it a try and report success (or failure) with this.
This is a good way to update half your system to rawhide without trying.
Noone should do this unless they know all about yum and what might happen.