On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:34 -0400, Brian Long wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 14:32 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote: > > > RHEL3 is a slightly older distro, that means some of its software is a > > bit out of date. One of those packages is python. If you run 'rpm -q > > python', you'll see that you have python-2.2. > > > > Reading the yum download page, you can see that yum-2.6 requires > > python-2.4. The last version of yum that supports python-2.2 is > > yum-2.0, so you need to download from the yum-2.0.x link. > > Garrick, > > My group is successfully using yum 2.4.3 on thousands of RHEL 3 boxes > running the stock Python 2.2. Before that, we used yum-2.2.x and it > worked great. Are the docs just out of date? > > I've heard yum shell is broken on yum-2.4.x on RHEL 3, but we've never > run into that issue. it's a shlex issue. It doesn't handle quoted names properly so everything for group with multi-word names in the shell don't work. -sv
