[Yum] Building Custom Yum RPM's

[Tom Diehl]

On 16 Jul 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> You need to update 8.0's rpm to at least rpm 4.1.1 - you can get it from
> here: ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x
> 
> once you do that then you can use yum-2.0 on rhl 8.0 and 9 identically -
> including config file just use $releasever properly.
> 
> I think the python in rhl 8.0 and in 9 are similar enough to read the
> pyc files from each.
> 
> check it to be sure, though.

FYI I am using yum 2.0 with rpm 4.1.1 on 8.0 and 4.2.1 on 9 here with no
problem. I also used yum to update yum and all of the related rpm packages
on ~10 machines without a problem. Of course YMMV.

> you can't use yum-2.0 on 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 - and the python for them is
> significantly different.

:-( 

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