getting systemtap installed from development repository

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Fri Aug 12 00:32:00 GMT 2005


> 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.



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