On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 04:46, Peter Peltonen wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed yum-1.0-1_73 on a machine running Red Hat Linux 6.2. I > had to edit the .spec file to lower the rpm dependencies from 4.0.4 to > 4.0.2 before I could recompile the src.rpm. Thanks for Seth for the tip. > (BTW there seems to be rpm 4.0.4 packages at rpm.org, but at least for > me installing the required popt package would have removed some crucial > packages lika passwd to install... Does anyone have any > thoughts/experiences on this?). > > Here's my experiences, if someone is interested: > > Yum installation gives some errors: > > --<snip>-- > Executing RPM (-Uvh)... > Preparing... ########################################### > [100%] > 1:yum ########################################### > [100%] > error reading information on service yum: No such file or directory > error reading information on service yum: No such file or directory > yum: unrecognized service > --</snip>-- > oh you need to edit the spec file again and move the file from /etc/init.d/yum to /etc/rc.d/init.d/yum /etc/init.d/ did not exist in 6.X > When running 'yum update' I got this error when installing a new kernel: > > --<snip>-- > Resolving dependencies > Dependencies resolved > I will do the following: > [install: kernel.i686] > Is this ok [y/N]: y > Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit > kernel 100 % done > depmod: invalid option -- i so: yum doesn't run depmod - rpm does. I bet if you run rpm -q --scripts kernel-that-version you'll find that depmod call in there or in some program that it calls. > Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader > Lilo found - adding kernel to lilo and making it the default > Installed: kernel.i686 > Transaction(s) Complete > --</snip>-- glad to hear yum works ok for you on 6.2 I'd still like to suggest people NOT use 6.X, in general, though :) -sv
