[Yum] newbie

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:34 -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 14:32 -0700, Garrick Staples 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 bit out of date.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  Are the docs just out of date?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.

it's a shlex issue. It doesn't handle quoted names properly so
everything for group with multi-word names in the shell don't work.

-sv