[Yum] Re: yum on RHEL AS release 3 taroon 4 on dell 64 bit HW

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 19:06 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:27 -1000, Thomas David Burns wrote:
> > > Where did you get the tarball from?
> > > 
> > > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.4 has both tarball 
> > > and src.rpm
> > 
> > Yeah that's the place.
> > 
> > I should've checked the dependencies first, once I finally got it 
> > going it showed that several are out of date.
> > 
> > Is there an archive of old releases somewhere? I do not want to have 
> > to upgrade to python 2.4.
> 
> Yum 2.4 doesn't require python 2.4 - python 2.2 should be fine although
> you do need at least python-optik as additional package on top of the
> other extra packages (python-elementtree and -sqlite)
> 

you're going to be pushing it to get sqlite and elementtree working
under python 2.2 - I'd recommend 2.3 or higher but rhel4 has python 2.3
so it shouldn't be a problem.

-sv