On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 13:51, Simon Kitching wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:22, seth vidal wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:37, Simon Kitching wrote: > > > By the way, is it possible to run newer yum versions on RH8.0? > > > The yum downloads page at > > > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml > > > seems clear that 1.0.3 is the appropriate version for RH8, but I'm > > > always hopeful :-) If so, any hints on what needs to be upgraded would > > > be appreciated. Note that I'm intending to use yum to apply mandatory > > > patches & updates to an RH8 server, so upgrading to RH9 is *not* an > > > option... > > > > if you update rpm to rpm 4.1.1 - available at download.fedora.us then > > you can run yum 2.0.4 with red hat linux 8.0. > > Alas, it doesn't seem to be that simple. > > rpm 4.1.1 requires popt-1.7.1 > RH8 comes with popt-1.7 > popt-1.7 and popt-1.7.1 conflict :-( > > I guess I'm stuck with yum 1.0.3 (and anonymous ftp). Still, even at > 1.0.3, it seems like yum will make my life a lot easier! just for fun: add this to your yum.conf: [fedora-patches] name=Fedora $releasever Patches baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/patches/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable/ then run yum update see if it gets you all updated and happy with rpm 4.1.1 and yum 2.0.X -sv
