On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:11 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>> We had a need for this app on CentOS-4 ... we want it to do what it >>> already does in the newer versions. I would have thought that the guys >>> who wrote it would have already done it for the CentOS-4 version of >>> python if they were interested in providing it there too :D >>> >>> Are you interested in backport type things like this to yum-utils and >>> other aps (for older versions)? >>> >>> If yes, we are certainly glad to provide that info. >> >> Johnny, why not include CentOS 3 as well ? >> >> python 1.5 is definitely too old, but python 2.2 must be within reach. > > WRT to our current need, the person who is going to maintain cobbler for > CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 asked for this utility (reposync) in yum-utils for > CentOS-4 so that the app can work the same in both versions. > > I don't think we are going to provide cobbler for CentOS-3 ... though we > are working on a yum-2.4.x for the CentOS-3 centosplus repo. > > We are working out the last remaining technical issue with yum-2.4 on > CentOS-3 (that we have found thus far), which is that yum-2.0 (and > up2date in C3) sets newly installed kernels to be the default. In EL4, > that is handled by the OS script "/sbin/new-kernel-pkg" (provided by > mkinitrd), however in EL3 that functionality was done instead by > up2date / yum. We won't modify how mkinitrd works on CentOS-3 (that is > a very important core package and we don't change that kind of > functionality from upstream), thus the only ohter option is to modify > yum to do it. That should be doable from a plugin, without touching yum itself. - Panu -