[Yum] Re: yum 2.2 (or 3?), FC3, coexistence with "old" yum (was: yum 2.1.8)

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:07 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 10:40 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > Already done a few thread steps above (requoted the part). It's not
> > > server-side, that's easy. It's ensuring that the client side will
> > > work, and also that it won't break all repos. If freshrpms upgrades
> > > yum to yum-2.1.x or yum-2.2, a lot of freshrpms users will find that
> > > their other "old" yum repos are dead, and they won't have a handle to
> > > use them.
> > 
> > Except that I went around to all of the major repository maintainers and
> > in most cases convinced them to run createrepo on their repositories.
> 
> What are the requirements for createrepo?
> I ask because I have a FreeBSD box which happens to have a couple of
> bunches of rpms on it (don't ask), and the upstream sources don't appear
> to be doing yum data for me right now.  So how much stuff am I likely to
> need to generate the data?  How about older style yum headers?
> 

createrepo needs rpm, rpm-python, libxml2 and python 2.2.

yum-arch needs rpm and rpm-python - depending on what version you use -
it needs little else.

-sv