Karanbir Singh wrote: > seth vidal wrote: >> - except that we've already fixed yum 3.1.X for this problem. >> >> If you want to backport the patch from 3.1.x to 3.0.x that'd probably be >> simplest. >> >> in fact, it's probably what red hat has done, too. >> > > I've got yum--3.0.x from c5b working with the mediaid stuff in a > remote repo, took a part of the patch from jkatz - since he seemed to > also be fixing other stuff in there. > > but the plot got a bit dense from there on - since it now seems we > need to either : > > a) also backport that fix into yum-2.4 (!) > > or > > b) get a yum-3.0.x working on CentOS-4 so that people can grab that > rpm, and use that to move from CentOS-4 to CentOS-5 > > I know the yum migration route isnt supported or even encouraged - but > thats not going to stop people from doing it anyway ( as we saw during > the CentOS-3 to CentOS-4 release time ). So if we can, I'd really like > to make this possible, in some way or the other. > > So, does anyone have the time to look at this ? I am quite tied up > with a *lot* of stuff on my plate at the moment. FYI - Scientific Linux is using yum-3.0.3 and yum-metadata-parser-1.0.3 (newer than in RHEL5 Beta2). Maybe that will help. http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/scientificlinux.org/5rolling/SRPMS/?C=M;O=D Greg > > - KB >