public yum repository for RHEL 5.3?

Question

my yum.repos.d file is lonely :(

Answer 1

You can get Centos 5.3 here - it is directly derived from RHEL. http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/CentOS-906.shtml

And if you google "yum repository for centos" you will find lots more to add to your repositories.

Answer 2

On my CentOS 4 machine, the yum repository information is here:

/etc/yum.repos.d

A sample entry that I've added:

/etc/yum.repos.d > cat remi.repo 
[remi]
name=Les RPM de remi pour Enterprise Linux 4 - $basearch
baseurl=http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/4/remi/$basearch/
    http://iut-info.univ-reims.fr/remirpms/enterprise/4/remi/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
failovermethod=priority

[remi-test]
name=Les RPM de remi en test pour Enterprise Linux 4 - $basearch
baseurl=http://rpms.famillecollet.com//enterprise/4/test/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi