[Yum] both old and new yum - server side

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 11:05 -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi,
> As I get set to start seriously testing yum 2.1.x, I'm looking through man 
> pages and the archives and I can't seem to find the answer to this question.
> 
> On my server, I will need to keep some repositories in the old yum format, and 
> make some in the new yum format.
> How do I do that?


yum-arch is yum 2.1.11.

it runs just fine.



> I don't seem to see any yum-arch option (at least in the man page for 2.1.11) 
> that tells it to make the repositories in the old manner.  Or does it just 
> automatically make the headers for both formats?

yum-arch makes the old format
createrepo makes the new format.
http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/ <--- createrepo

-sv