[Yum] RE: problems using yum to upgrade from 8.0 to 9

[seth vidal]

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