[Yum] RedHat 2.1 ES FYI

Lawrence, Steve Steve.Lawrence at factiva.com
Sun Aug 8 00:24:27 UTC 2004


RedHat ES 2.1 is based on 7.3. You'll find you have :

# rpm -aq | grep rpm
rpm-4.0.4-7x.20

>From YUM's download page :
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml

Requirements
-------------

rpm-4.0.x  	7.3 and earlier  	1.0.3  	anything up to and
including yum 1.0.3
rpm-4.1  	8.0  			1.0.3*  	anything up to
and including yum 1.0.3

Beneath that :

Stable for Red Hat Linux 7.3 (or prior w/conf file edit):
yum-1.0.3-1_73.noarch.rpm
Stable for Red Hat Linux 8.0 w/librpm404 and rpm404-python:
yum-1.0.3-1_80.noarch.rpm 

So, you should be using : yum-1.0.3-1_73.noarch.rpm

You've got the version for RedHat 8 based dist's (which is none of the
ES's.. :( )

For ES 3, you should use yum-2.0.7-1.noarch.rpm 

S.




-----Original Message-----
From: yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu
[mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of Aaron P. Martinez
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 11:47 PM
To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
Subject: [Yum] RedHat 2.1 ES FYI


Not sure if anyone is using it for this platform  (RedHat 2.1 ES), but I
am, and found that i was required to use the 1.x version of yum.....

I downloaded the src.rpm and built....but the resulting rpm had an 8 in
the name instead of a 7.x as the system seems to be built upon a mixture
of 7.2 and 7.3 redhat...  it seemed odd to me..but well...being the
accepting person i am..i said..hey.OK

trying to install was a nightmare.......it kept telling me i needed the
rpm 4.1 dependencies and i tried to fulfull them but to no avail...i,
like yum didn't want to force any installs so after realizing that 2.1
uses 4.0.x rpm i installed (instead of rebuilding) the src.rpm and took
out the librpm and rpm404 dependencies in the spec file then
rebuilt.....  then installed w/o a hitch.......  works like a charm...

Please, to all..let me know if i'm breaking something by doing
this......

Thanks in advance.

Aaron Martinez

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