-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 David Eisenstein wrote: >On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Jesse Keating wrote: > >>On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:55 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: >> >>>I upgraded one server to get the new improved XML metadata, only to find >>>that Legacy didn't have the new metadata. So I didn't apply the update to >>>my other servers. (I use one server as a guinea pig before letting the >>>others update themselves.) >>> >>Legacy has this metadata now, and other mirrors will have it when they >>sync. (as of a week ago?) > > >Can someone explain about "old yum" and "new yum?" I am confused about >this, and am not finding anything in Fedora Legacy's documentation that >helps me better understand it. > >I run Fedora Core 1, and have its yum (yum-2.0.4-2 from the original FC1 >distro) installed. Is this the "new" yum? Or is the yum in updates for >FC1 (yum-2.0.5-1) the new yum? If not, how do I go about getting the new >yum? Will both the old and new yums work with fedoralegacy download >sites, and/or other repositories? > >Also, the URL reported in the yum package on my system is ><http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/>. When I go to that wep-page, it looks >like a Duke University Linux Users' Group moinmoin wiki page: > > "yum > > "This page does not exist yet. You can create a new empty page, > or use one of the page templates. Before creating the page, > please check if a similar page already exists." > >Where do I find out more information about the flavors of yum? And how >yummy are they? :) > >Thanks. -David > >-- > >fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list David, Short answer is: Old yum is how FC1 and FC2 operate currently. There has been talk on the list about changing support for the old-yum formats to the new format brought on by FC3 and higher, especially since the migration of FC3 to fedoralegacy is fast approaching. I think what is happening is some places have already migrated to the new format. I'm not sure if everyone has... If so, we should really have an official announcement. I haven't made any changes myself, and I'm hoping that it already hasn't happened... but, you are right the talk has been a bit confusing at times. Changes include: (a) downloading an official mirror list to use for the installation packages. This replaces any hard links to fedoralegacy in support for mirrors being queried fist. (b) multi-configuration support. To help avoid having a really big main configuration file for all repos. There may be other changes; but these are the BIG two. James Kosin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDZp/okNLDmnu1kSkRAyLkAJ9IEU4DxpNVtsFPOS7EeAOa5t9xIQCfbmam Zdub95CwDdRUjQUoWeVszYE= =XNUu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
