On 16 Jul 2003, seth vidal wrote: > You need to update 8.0's rpm to at least rpm 4.1.1 - you can get it from > here: ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x > > once you do that then you can use yum-2.0 on rhl 8.0 and 9 identically - > including config file just use $releasever properly. > > I think the python in rhl 8.0 and in 9 are similar enough to read the > pyc files from each. > > check it to be sure, though. FYI I am using yum 2.0 with rpm 4.1.1 on 8.0 and 4.2.1 on 9 here with no problem. I also used yum to update yum and all of the related rpm packages on ~10 machines without a problem. Of course YMMV. > you can't use yum-2.0 on 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 - and the python for them is > significantly different. :-( -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
