On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:38, R P Herrold wrote: > On 3 Feb 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > > So I think I know why you're having problems - you're attempting to run > > this on rhl 8.0 - specifically on rpm 4.1. I'm not sure how to handle > > this w/o making the code ugly with if statements. > > > > But, I need a good way of getting people from psyche to phoebe+ cleanly. > > hmm. > > <smile> -- I feel your pain -- but really (please, please > ...), coverage through each RPM point release seems necessary > [rpm-4.1.x looks like it will be a Psyche only variant, with > ]. Particularly, I am hoping to extend yum as a sub-tool in > my SRPM auto-builder script project, and need it working > genericly for Alpha and Sparc porting. > ok then lets try it this way - maybe as a part of the docs and I'll gladly build rpms to meet all of these requirements: I don't want to key off ver of rhl b/c the rpm ver can change inside it. so lets base this off rpm version rpm ver yum ver 4.0.4 0.9.X 4.1 0.9.X with rpm404-python and librpm404 4.2 1.X or greater Right now there are two branches of yum. There is the rpm 4 branch and the rpm 4.2 branch. Would it be possible/reasonable to make it work this way? The headers are still the same - yum-arch is almost identical in both (well, not entirely, but close) -sv
