Hi, yum-2.4 and required dependancies for CentOS-3 are now available for i386 and x86_64 in the centosplus repository. The default version still is 2.0, nothing changes for those who don't want/need the new features (for example: fastestmirror, priorities and protectbase). For those who don't want to update to yum-2.4 but still use the centosplus repository, add to your /etc/yum.conf the line: exclude= yum The old metadata for yum-2.0 (yum-arch) and the new metadata for yum-2.4 (createrepo) are BOTH generated on all the CentOS-3 repositories on the centos.org mirrors. Caveat: the 3rd parties repositories using only yum-2.0 metadata will NOT be compatible with the yum-2.4 until their respective maintainers also create the new metadata. yum update procedure: 1) enable the centosplus repository in /etc/yum.conf #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 2) update # yum update 3) fix the yum.conf file: # mv /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf-2.0.x # mv /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew /etc/yum.conf 4) optionally re-add the custom repositories to /etc/yum.repos.d Cheers, The CentOS team -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/attachments/20071107/5e06c790/attachment-0004.sig>