[Yum] Yum 2.0 on Red Hat Linux 7.3

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:45, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I guess you can forget or at least lower the priority of my request to have
> gzip timestamp nullification in the 1.0 branch. I followed jbj's advice and
> simply got 2.0 working by upgrading to rpm 4.1.1, installing librpm404 and
> replacing "/usr/bin/python" by "/usr/bin/python2" inside yum's files :-)
> 
> For those interested in doing the same, all is here :
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/testing/rpm-4.1.1-1.7x/
> 
> The rpm packages are the exact ones from ftp.rpm.org (not rebuilt, original
> signature), librpm404 was recompiled for 7x (only 8x packages are on
> ftp.rpm.org) and yum is my common 2.0 source package rebuilt with :
> --define 'configfor rh7.3'
> --define 'python python2'
> in order to have it modified to work properly.
> 
> The spec file can be found here if anyone is interested :
> http://freshrpms.net/packages/builds/index.html?build=yum

I'm confused if you're upgrading rpm4.1.1 you shouldn't need to use
librpm404 at all.

-sv