On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 18:10, Kevin Brouelette wrote: > Hello > I'm new to yum and have some questions I didn't see answered in the > archives. > I have mirrored the updates for Redhat 8 on my http server in > http://192.168.44.13/RH8_updates/ > In that directory there are i386,i586,i686,noarch and athlon directories > with the latest > updates in them. I run yum-arch without any problems and it creates a > 'headers' > directory in the RH8_updates directory with the rest of the above > directories. > The server [Redhat 7.1] runs yum version yum-0.9.4-1_7x from RPM. [it > doesn't like > 20030203.tar.gz] 7.X won't like any of the recent dailies - that's correct. The sun is slowly setting on 7.x so I have to move development along. > On the RH8 client I use yum 20030203.tar.gz and set the yum.conf file as > follows: > [RH8 doesn't like yum-0.9.4-1_7x from RPM] the 7x means rhl 7.x - so you should grab the yum-0.9.4-1_8x.src.rpm and rebuild that for 8.0 > [root@celeron root]# cat /etc/yum.conf > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > > [myserver] > name=RH8 > baseurl=http://192.168.44.13/RH8_updates/ > > Then I run 'yum update'. It shows me all the available rpms and I select > 'y' to > install them. All is good untill : For Red Hat Linux 8.0 you'll want to run yum 0.9.4 and make sure you have librpm404 and rpm404-python installed Then it should "just work" HTH -sv
