[Yum] Using Yum with RedHat ES 3.0

[Lawrence, Steve]

>While browsing the repository, there doesn't seem to be a dir for
anything after 9.0.  

RH ES doesn't have publicly available repositories.

As a commercial product, one of the things you're paying for when you
*buy* RH ES is the binary packaging of (what is otherwise mostly) open
source code.

You *can* download the SRPMS and compile them by hand, but... YUM won't
do that for you.

There are alternatives aswell - there's someone on this group who does
pretty much what's outlined above and sells the service for like.. 5
bucks a month or similar. I forget what it's called though..

Short answer is 'there are no respositories.

Long answer is : You *CAN* make your own repository if you have enough
machines to patch to make it worthwhile, or you have machines that can't
talk to the internet. You'll need to download all the available errata
using a machine that *can* get to RHN, stick 'em in a web-served
directory, and yum-arch over it. (Or create-repo if you've mashed your
RPM/Python libs to work with the latest YUM.)

>Would it be advisable to create a config file specifying the 9.0 dir?

No.

S.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu
[mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Sullivan
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 12:49 PM
To: yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu
Subject: [Yum] Using Yum with RedHat ES 3.0

I'd like to use Yum to resolve some dependency issues on a newly 
installed RH ES 3.0 setup.  It does not appear that there's a header 
file for this distro, though Yum does look for one.  The error I get is 
as follows:

retrygrab () failed for: 
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/3ES/i386/headers/
header.info
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file 
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/3ES/i386/headers/
header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

While browsing the repository, there doesn't seem to be a dir for 
anything after 9.0.  Would it be advisable to create a config file 
specifying the 9.0 dir?

Thanks,
Rob Sullivan


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