I noticed on the todo list that yum CVS management was on the list. Here are patches. yum.spec.in is just a copy of the current yum.spec with a bit of a change bash-2.05b$ cp yum.spec yum.spec.in bash-2.05b$ joe yum.spec.in Processing '/etc/joe/joerc'...done Processing '/etc/joe/joerc'...done File yum.spec.in not changed so no update needed. bash-2.05b$ diff -u yum.spec yum.spec.in --- yum.spec 2003-02-28 00:52:49.000000000 -0500 +++ yum.spec.in 2003-03-02 20:36:12.000000000 -0500 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Summary: RPM installer/updater Name: yum Version: 0.9.4 -Release: 1_8x +Release: 0.YUMCVS_8x License: GPL Group: System Environment/Base Source: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz bash-2.05b$ cat mkyumcvsrel #!/bin/sh # # mkyumcvsrel # # Run this in the ./yum/ directory # YYYYMMDD=`date +%Y%m%d` SRC="yum.spec.in" DST="yum-8.x.spec" cd .. [ -d ./yum-$YYYYMMDD/ ] && rm -rf ./yum-$YYYYMMDD/ mkdir ./yum-$YYYYMMDD/ rsync -av ./yum/. ./yum-$YYYYMMDD/. sed -e "s/YUMCVS/${YYYYMMDD}/" < ./yum-$YYYYMMDD/$SRC > ./yum-$YYYYMMDD/$DST tar zcvf ./yum-$YYYYMMDD.tar.gz ./yum-$YYYYMMDD/ # bash-2.05b$ -- Russ Herrold