On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 13:29 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12:08, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:46 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: > > > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 08:47, John Fox wrote: > > > > What yum version would be suitable for Centos 3? > > > > > > I just built 2.3.4 for CentOS 3.5: > > > > Does yum >= 2.1 support old-style yum-arch repos? > > No. And neither should repos. If they only support the old-style > because of legacy reasons, then those maintaining such repos should be > encouraged to generate xml-md. This would be something that more > active CentOS community members would have to engage in. I'm not sure > of many yum-enabled CentOS 3.5 repos out there. one reason has to do with kernels and mkinitrd. yum 2.0.X would automatically make the just-installed and newest kernel the default kernel for booting. Yum 2.2.X and 2.4.X dropped that 'functionality' b/c the mkinitrd package in the newer distributions and newer releases handled that for us. So the problem with running yum >= 2.2.X on a centos3 machine is that the new kernel won't be the default boot kernel. -sv
