[CentOS] Re: RHEL4 - which yum version?

Thu Mar 29 23:42:58 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

Scott Silva spake the following on 3/29/2007 1:03 PM:
> Florin Andrei spake the following on 3/29/2007 11:54 AM:
>> I'm looking at this document to convert RHEL4 systems to Yum and setup
>> an updates repository.
>>
>> http://sial.org/howto/yum/
>>
>> Which version of yum would you recommend for that? What would be the
>> dependencies that need to be installed? Any guidelines for installing
>> Yum on RHEL4 without breaking the RPM dependencies and stuff (and with
>> minimal changes to the system)?
>>
>> The document recommends yum-2.0.7, but that's pretty old, I guess.
>>
> Wouldn't this break things enough to lose the RedHat support?
> If so, you might as well migrate to CentOS.
> 
Never mind, you just lose support on anything installed through yum.
And I would guess, anything that they think was broken by what was installed
by yum.

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