[Yum] Using Yum with RedHat ES 3.0

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jan 31 18:04:15 UTC 2005


> 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.)
> 

rebuilding yum 2.1.x on rhel3 makes it work w/o any new libs or changes.

Just rebuild the source rpm.

I was fairly careful to make sure that worked. :)

-sv





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