[Yum] RE: problems using yum to upgrade from 8.0 to 9
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Apr 22 21:34:56 UTC 2003
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 16:23, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> > > Just point me at the FAQ. ;)
> >
> > yah - well this is a newish feature so it's not in the docs or faq yet
> > I'm working on them :)
>
> Aha, so this falls under the heading of, "But wait, there's more!" ;)
>
hehe - probably, so.
> > the yumgroups.xml file is just red hat's comps.xml (or any
> > file made up
> > by any repository maintainer) that lists pkgs in certain
> > groups and how
> > they relate to each other.
>
> Hhhmmm. How would I go about capturing/creating a 'standard' yumgroups.xml based on a 'standard' RH9 mirror and/or 'standard' comps.xml file? I've found 4 comps.xml files:
>
> $ find /kickstart/redhat/ -name "*.xml"
> /kickstart/redhat/linux/9/en/doc/RedHat/base/comps.xml
> /kickstart/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/base/comps.xml
> /kickstart/redhat/linux/8.0/en/doc/RedHat/base/comps.xml
> /kickstart/redhat/linux/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/base/comps.xml
well the one in en/os/i386/RedHat/base/ is the right one.
> I then made a backup of /etc/yum.conf, uninstalled then reinstalled yum-1.96-1 on the second host. Unfortunately the error persists. Just for fun:
>
if you could - go grab 1.97
it fixed a significant bug in 1.96
-sv
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