rpm repositories

[alan645]

Hi All,

I'm running RedHat 9 as a webserver. In the interest of saving time, I'd like to use apt-get for security upgrades. ( bind, apache, etc.. )

The problem that I'm having is that the rpm repositories ( that I've found ) only have builds of certain packages that have known security holes. Am I looking in the wrong places, or what can I do to avoid dependency hell?

So far I've tried apt-get, yum and up2date. No luck yet.

My sources.list file has these entries:

rpm http://update.onlinehome-server.com redhat/9/en/i386 os updates
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386 freshrpms os updates

The first is setup by my hosting provider. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

[lakerdonald]

linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ has a list of rpm repositories. Just copy them into the sources file, and try again
-lakerdonald

[alan645]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I had found that site earlier.

Let me give you an example of what I'm looking for. The latest release of the bind package in repositories is bind-9.2.1-16.i386.rpm. That has a date of Feb 24, 2003. There are a few updates since then, and even some of the earlier updates have been found to have security issues.

Right now bind-9.3 is beta, but 9.2.2, 9.2.3 and 9.2.4 are considered stable ( as far as I know ) Any other ideas?

Thanks again for the quick reply.

[lakerdonald]

go to www.rpmfind.com, and type in the package you are looking for. It will give a list of servers that have that package.
good luck and let me know how that works for you
-lakerdonald

[alan645]

Awesome!! Thanks so much.

[lakerdonald]

no problem

[alan645]

Actually, I do have one more question, Can I use the rpm's for fedora if I'm using Redhat 9? What about the ones for mandrake or connectiva?

[lakerdonald]

you can use rpms for fedora.using the ones for mandrake might not work.
-lakerdonald

[alan645]

Thanks again, you've been extremely helpful

[lakerdonald]

no problem. this is fun
-lakerdonald