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Fedora RPM's on RedHat

Eli_pok — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:23:40 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to install Control-M on RedHat 4.4 and it requests an RPM with a version that is only available from RedHat5 or Fedora releases.

BMC advised to install the Fedora RPM.

what is your opinion ?
Does it supported at all ?
Is there way to match a RedHat release to Fedora (for example Fedora6 is RedHat4) ?

Thanks.

Re: Fedora RPM's on RedHat

Michal Kapalka (mikap) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:51:26 GMT

hi,

did you try it to find on this web site ??

http://www.rpmfind.net/

mikap

Re: Fedora RPM's on RedHat

Eli_pok — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:26:14 GMT

I was not trying to find the rpm (I'm talking about libstdc++-4.0.2), but was trying to understand the consequences of installing a Fedora rpm upon a RedHat system.

Re: Fedora RPM's on RedHat

Matti_Kurkela — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:27:57 GMT

According to Wikipedia, the relationships between RHEL and Fedora work out roughly like this:

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* Red Hat Linux 6.2 â Red Hat Linux 6.2E
* Red Hat Linux 7.2 â Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
* Red Hat Linux 9 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
* Fedora Core 3 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
* Fedora Core 6 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
* Fedora 11 -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (planned for release in the first quarter of 2010)
---------------
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHEL

It's a bit difficult to determine the impact without knowing which RPM we are talking about.

If the required RPM does not replace anything important and the RPM itself is not used by anything else (= if it would be a "leaf" in a dependency tree graph for your system), installing it should be fairly safe.

Of course, if the required RPM has dependencies that don't match the RHEL 4.4 distribution, trying to install the Fedora binary RPM may be impossible. In that case, get the _source_ RPM from Fedora and build it yourself in a RHEL 4.4 system. That should automatically produce a binary RPM that depends on RHEL 4.4 libraries instead of Fedora ones.

If Control-M has such strange requirements, BMC definitely should describe _exactly_ how to fulfill them. I would think that BMC would be responsible for supporting their solution (i.e. I would complain to BMC if any complications happen as a result of their "bright idea".)

MK

Re: Fedora RPM's on RedHat

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:32:38 GMT

Shalom, Eli,
I'm not familiar with Control-M, I guess it is commercial software from BMC. So rpmfind and others repos won't help.
I suggest ask BMC support.

As for RHEL-Fedora matching - AFAIK, RHEL4 is close to Fedora 3, RHEL5 - Fedora 6.

Re: Fedora RPM's on RedHat

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:49:57 GMT

Shalom,

Red Hat 4 is Based on Fedora technology.

RHEL 4 was based on Fedora Core 3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

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