On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:36:16PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Peter C. Norton wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:11:52PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > you're going to be pushing it to get sqlite and elementtree working > > > under python 2.2 - I'd recommend 2.3 or higher but rhel4 has python 2.3 > > > so it shouldn't be a problem. > > > > yum can be pretty easily built on rhel4. The packages at > > http://dag.wieers.com makes things far easier than having to chase down and > > building the equivelant packages yourself. > > FWIW, > I tried that route but it turned out to be easier to simply take the fc4 srpms > and rebuild them on am el4 machine. The way the packages are setup on dag > differs from they way the fc rpms are arranged so it is possible to install > yum and all of its deps but still not have a working yum. Using the fc4 > sqlite and elementree solves that. It was as simple as doing an rpmbuild on > the el4 machine. Who knows, you might even be able to take the fc4 binaries > and install them but I did not try. > > For the record I did get yum working with the dag packages but it was much more > fiddley. I changed the spec files for yum to demand celementtree. I don't think anything else was needed. -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one.
