[Yum] newbie

[Steve Ingraham]

Brian Long wrote:
>> RHEL3 is a slightly older distro, that means some of its software is
a
>> bit out of date.  One of those packages is python.  If you run 'rpm
-q
>> python', you'll see that you have python-2.2.  
>> 
>> Reading the yum download page, you can see that yum-2.6 requires
>> python-2.4.  The last version of yum that supports python-2.2 is
>> yum-2.0, so you need to download from the yum-2.0.x link.

>Garrick,

>My group is successfully using yum 2.4.3 on thousands of RHEL 3 boxes
>running the stock Python 2.2.  Before that, we used yum-2.2.x and it
>worked great.  Are the docs just out of date? 

>I've heard yum shell is broken on yum-2.4.x on RHEL 3, but we've never
>run into that issue.

So I am confused.  If yum has the capability to function with RedHat why
should I not be able to use it?  I don't know much about all the issues,
nor frankly does it have a great deal of impact in my world unless it is
restricting me from running the systems in our domain.  I was informed
that yum would function well for my needs to update my RedHat machines.
Now I am hearing that is not true.  I just need something that will
allow me to keep my Linux machines running smoothly.

Steve