Where are the Repositories?

Tue Jun 26 13:30:11 MDT 2007

This is something I have wondered about as well, both for 4.1 and 5.  Going
on an uneducated hunch, I would say that since YDL has its roots in
Fedora/Red Hat, you could use Fedora PPC repositories to supplement the
software selection.  I'm not exactly sure how well it would work though,
depending on if YDL places some things and elements in drastically different
locations, has different build options, etc.  I know that FreshRPMs has a
Yellowdog 4.0 directory, but I'm not sure of how often it's updated or how
well its maintained.

>From my limited research so far, I believe you can use Fedora Core 5 repos
in YDL, but as I said, it's a more uneducated hunch.  I'm still in process
of exploring and researching, and if anyone sees something wrong or
incorrect in my assumptions please do say so.

There is also the option of compiling from source and installing that way,
but it kind of defeats the purpose of YUM and RPMs.

I'd recommend sticking with YDL for a bit longer and see if you can get the
repos worked out.  I've gone through several distributions on my G4 and
found that Yellowdog was the easiest and most complete to install (for me
anyway).

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:52:52 -0700
From: David Lowe <doctorjlowe at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Where are the Repositories?
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On Jun 25, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:39:17 -0700
> David Lowe <doctorjlowe at verizon.net> wrote:

<snip stuff about Ubuntu & fink>

>> I decided i would like to put some linux on my old PowerBook,
>> and preferably experiment with rpms to supplement my familiarity with
>> debs.  I finally got around to installing YDL 5.01, got online and
>> immediately upgraded to 5.02.
>
> That's a good move as far as PowerPC systems are concerned, but
> keep in mind
> that current packages for you are best installed and searched
> either using the
> Add/Remove Software utility (also called pirut).  It's recommended
> that you use
> the Add portion, not the Remove portion.  In other words, avoid
> unchecking any
> software.
>
> As far as searching current rpms modify the yum.conf file according
> to the
> instructions here:
>
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.0/yum.shtml

<snip directions on using yum>

       Okeh, i read the web page you pointed me to, and my /etc/yum.repos.d
looks exactly like they say it should look.  Now this is just sad, as
it means the paltry offerings in Package Manager are all there is.
On the topic of available software, i'm going to focus in on an
emotionally charged area: games.  In Package Manager i can browse the
available choices in "Applications/Games and Entertainment": exactly
four, half of which are utilities.  Nothing against Gnome Games, but
i mostly go for more involving stuff like RPGs.  On the exact same
PowerBook i can boot into OS X and choose between 212 unix based
games that will compile on this PPC [see for yourself: http://
pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/section.php/games ].  So it's clearly not
that the hardware won't support available source code.  On my Ubuntu
system, there are 741 game packages available.  Now i'll admit that
some of those are data files/translations, etc; also that system has
an AMD processor, so probably not all those are available for PPC.
Anyway, if YDL had complete SDL libraries available, they might be
able to offer a little more.  I wish i wasn't so negative right now,
but i can't help but notice that since i sent out that initial email
two days ago, i have yet to receive a single word of advice or help
in getting sdl-image, etc. working.  I guess i'll have to try another
distro, as the supposed hardware support advantages of the Yellow Dog
are not noticeable here: my Bluetooth mouse isn't recognized, the
system won't sleep, etc.

-- 
Jason Christiansen
jchristiansen at gmail.com
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