The Webtatic Yum repository is a CentOS 5 repository containing updated web-related packages. Its main goals are:
- to provide CentOS administrators with the latest stable minor releases of web development/hosting software, which are not provided in CentOS distribution minor releases.
- to serve as an additional installation option for some of Webtatic’s projects.
All packages are signed using GnuPG, and are verified using the Webtatic GPG key:
Installation
To set up the repository, install the webtatic-release RPM:
rpm -Uvh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/latest.rpm
Additional information
The RPMs are built from the also provided SRPMs, most of which are re-packaged re-versions of Fedora 11/12 SRPMs. The Mock build system is used to build both i386 and x86_64 RPMs which satisfy the base, updates and extra repositories of CentOS, which are set up in the base installation of CentOS.
It is recommended to use the “enabled=0″ parameter in the webtatic.repo file (which is provided in this state wherever it can be downloaded/installed on this site). This can be used to limit which packages you would like to update, as you may prefer to keep some packages at their CentOS-provided versions.
Packages can then be installed using the flag –enablerepo=webtatic to explicitly enable the repository for only that command, e.g.:
yum install --enablerepo=webtatic package-name