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Installing softwares to RHEL5 without RHN subscription

Fazal Yehiya Linux, Red Hat , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

To Install software to Red Hat 5 Enterprise Linux when your installation is not registered with Red Hat Network, simple solution is to install the software from the installation DVD.

If you have an ISO file of the installed OS version, mount it to /mnt/cd

Then create a file “iso.repo” in /etc/yum.repos.d

[base]
name=DVDROM
baseurl=file:///mnt/cd/Server
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

How to setup a Mirrored Subversion repository

Fazal Yehiya Linux, Subversion , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Releases after 1.4 in Subversion saw the introduction of a new tool “svnsync” which was very useful in creating two synchronized svn repositories. It can be used on many different designs and the most simplest design was to create a mirrored repository of source repository as a backup. In this article I will describe a scenario where it is one step further on above mentioned design.

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