[Yum] yum 2.4.3 for EL3? (problems with 2.2.2)

Stephan van Hienen yum-list at a2000.nu
Wed Sep 27 23:07:20 UTC 2006


On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Stephan van Hienen wrote:

> > We are working on a version of yum-2.4.x for CentOS-3.  It has work
> > around patches for yum-shell and a couple other items (some of the yum
> > plugins, etc.).
> > 
> > It is not quite ready yet, as there are problems still with the updating
> > of kernels and properly setting the new kernel as the default boot
> > kernel.
> > 
> > There is also a problem with upgrading it as part of an upgrade of other
> > packages ... so you would need to upgrade yum first (and it's required
> > python/sqlite packages), then upgrade the other packages with the new
> > yum.
> > 
> > When we do have it fully working it will be in the CentOS-3 centosplus
> > repo here:
> > 
> > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/centosplus/
> > 
> > (should be w/in the next week or so)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Johnny Hughes
> 
> Hi,
> 
> what is the current status for yum 2.4 for centos3/rhel3 ?

any update on yum 2.4 for centos3/rhel3 ?



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