[Yum] yum 2.4.3 for EL3? (problems with 2.2.2)

[Stephan van Hienen]

> We are working on a version of yum-2.4.x for CentOS-3.  It has work
> around patches for yum-shell and a couple other items (some of the yum
> plugins, etc.).
> 
> It is not quite ready yet, as there are problems still with the updating
> of kernels and properly setting the new kernel as the default boot
> kernel.
> 
> There is also a problem with upgrading it as part of an upgrade of other
> packages ... so you would need to upgrade yum first (and it's required
> python/sqlite packages), then upgrade the other packages with the new
> yum.
> 
> When we do have it fully working it will be in the CentOS-3 centosplus
> repo here:
> 
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/centosplus/
> 
> (should be w/in the next week or so)
> 
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes

Hi,

what is the current status for yum 2.4 for centos3/rhel3 ?