[Yum] Building Custom Yum RPM's

[seth vidal]

> 
> 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.

oh - I know yum-2.0 works on 8 with rpm 4.1.1 - the question was whether
or not the byte-compiled modules built on 9 were compatible with the
python on 8.0.



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

So let me be more clear.

if you build rpm 4.1.1 on 7.3 and install it then yes, you should be
able to run yum-2.0 on 7.3.

7.1 and 7.2 need better python2's and libxml2 iirc.

I'd also like to note that you do NOT want to go through that pain.

I need to backport some stuff to 1.0.x sometime soon anyway - it's not a
dead branch - but I wouldn't expect all the newest features to reach it
immediately, either.

-sv