[Yum] Fedora4 vs RHEL 3.0as yum's versions

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:56 -0300, Daniel Romeo wrote:
> Seth,
> I need to implement a local repository for fedora core 4 in a yum server 
> machine (RHEL 3.0as) with yum-2.0.7-1.noarch.rpm installed. The 
> questions are: can I to continue using this version in fedora client 
> safely?.
> The Duke webpage recommends yum 2.4.x.src.rpm,  do you  know any 
> incompatibility to use both? (lamentably there isn't a noarch for 
> download in this version). 
> Regards.

to host a yum repo for fedora core 4 all you need to have is createrepo.

it should work just fine on rhel3 - you'll just need to rebuild the srpm
for it.

-sv