[Yum] newbie

[Brian Long]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 08:46 -0500, Steve Ingraham wrote:
> 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 bit out of date.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  Are the docs just out of date?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,

We use our own internally-created yum repositories.  We still have to
have RHEL subscriptions and download RHEL updates from RHN.

/Brian/

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