Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:56:09 +0200 Daniel de Kok daniel@centos.org wrote:
- CentOS 3: this is the first release of yum 2.4 for CentOS 3, and we plan to provide this as an optional upgrade through the CentOSPlus repository. We have added code to yum 2.4 for default kernel handling (as setting the default kernel after kernel updates was handled by yum 2.0). Additionally, the package also requires the yum C metadata parser.
Any folks out there who have tested this on CentOS 3 yet? We'd really like to get some feedback on how well this works, especially with the new kernel update handling.
I have tested this on two CentOS 3 servers so far. There was no issue with pyhton-optik here (as mentioned in this thread):
..Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [update: yum 2.4.3-4.el3.centos.noarch] I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies: [deps: python-optik 1.4.1-2.noarch] [deps: python-sqlite 1.1.7-1.2.1.i386] [deps: centos-yumconf 3-2.noarch] [deps: sqlite 3.3.6-2.i386] [deps: python-elementtree 1.2.6-5.el3.centos.i386] [deps: yum-metadata-parser 1.1.0-2.el3.centos.i386] [deps: python-urlgrabber 2.9.8-2.noarch]
On one of the servers I use packages from rpmforge. I installed the priorities plugin, added some repository specific excludes etc. All works very well (and much faster now). I updated about 10 packages using the new yum and there were no issues.
Concerning the kernel update handling: There hasn't been a kernel update for CentOS 3 in quite some time, so it's hard to test on a production server. I will see if I can find some time to test this here on a server at the office. What are you concerned about most? A system with more than one kernel flavor installed?
Best Regards Michael Paesold