> This is not really true anymore. There is work underway for allowing > almost all of yum 2.0 to run on a rpm 4.0.4 and python 1.5.2 > system. It has not landed yet, and we should allow more time for it, > but it is a non-issue anymore. There are still a lot of issues to work out with those patches. I wouldn't plan on them. Not to mention the fact that rhl 7.1 doesn't have a python2 that is useable, planning on backporting that, too? > apt-get is probably the best distribution mechanism available for > legacy. It has proven solid for the legacy releases (if one attributes > the triggered rpm database corruptions to rpm, apt/synaptic have taken > quite some unneccessary blame for it). I'm curious, how has yum 'failed' for legacy releases? I've been using yum on > 800, 7.x machines for more than 2.5 years. -sv
