[Yum] Header differences, debian followup

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Nov 23 23:57:45 UTC 2003


On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 15:54, Jim Perrin wrote:
> In the next chapter of my saga, I've managed to get rpm-python and rpm to 
> successfully function on a debian system. The only problem is that it's rpm 
> 4.0.4 which limits me to yum 1.0.3. Since this box is only going to be 
> generating headers for yum clients to get, I have to ask what the 
> differences in the headers from yum 1.0.3 to yum2x. Are there any truly 
> remarkable differences that would require sacrificing another goat to get 
> newer versions of rpm to build? Are there any irregularities that my occur 
> if a 2.x client connects and gets 1.x headers?

the headers are identical.
yum-arch 1.0.X will create repositories that work fine for yum 2.0.X and
yum 1.0.X

-sv





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