I found my problem.. heh.
The Centos-3.5 directories aren't set up to use the latest Yum; they
don't have repomd.xml files.
The secret is to use
rpm -Uvh http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/yum-2.0.8-1.noarch.rpm
and an /etc/yum.conf like this:
====8<-----cut-here------------
[main]
exclude=mod_ssl* httpd* perl mysql* php* #add this line for cpanel servers
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
#released updates
[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
--
Penelope Fudd <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
