Hi! Resssurecting on oldish thread... On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Matthias Saou wrote: > Hi, > > I guess you can forget or at least lower the priority of my request to have > gzip timestamp nullification in the 1.0 branch. I followed jbj's advice and > simply got 2.0 working by upgrading to rpm 4.1.1, installing librpm404 and > replacing "/usr/bin/python" by "/usr/bin/python2" inside yum's files :-) > > For those interested in doing the same, all is here : > http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/testing/rpm-4.1.1-1.7x/ > So, I discovered a out-of-patched redhat 7.2 box sitting in a corner of the machine room yesterday and decdied to see if I could get yum-2.0 on it. Installing the Matthias' rpm-4.1.1 and rpmlib404 and yum for 7.3 along with the python2 packages from RedHat-7.3 was a decidedly uneventful event and I was able to manipulate updates and packages in all the yum-2.0 goodness I wanted. I really was expecting to break this box, but it actually was easy. So, just a data point to say that it's possible to do yum-2.0 on 7.2 as well, I'm going to see what 7.1 does next week. One note is that the group* commands probably won't work on 7.x because there doesn't seem to be a comps.xml for the 7.x series. Not sure how to generate one from the plaintext comps file... need to poke at 8/9 to see what tools are availible and see if they're portable backwards... -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhruby@xxxxxxx> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support metaphysically wrinkle-free -------------------------------------------
