[ATrpms-users] yum and RHEL4

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:48:31PM -0800, mrrs wrote:
> Okay, I apologize in advance for my density...
> 
> > There are no RHEL4 yum repos, so first you'll have to create your own
> > local yum repo [1]. yum cannot connect to rhn, only up2date can.
> 
> Either I wasn't clear in my original post, or I am completely misunderstanding your reply - the
> ATrpms site has a subdirectory called "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4", which has a listing for a Yum
> rpm file in it. Is this not what I should use if I want to install Yum into RHEL4?

There are "three" kind of channels: redhat base channel with the
release rpms, redhat updates channel with the updates, and 3rd party
channels.

What I wanted to say is that there is no yum/apt/etc. base and/or
updates channels due to licensing issues. You can only create these
locally and point yum/apt/smart/etc to them. E.g. you only get half
the cake with the RHEL4 3rd party repos. If some package requires an
RHEL4 base and/or update package that you haven't yet on your system
the depsolver will not be able to resolve it (unless you create this
locally).

Hope I was clearer this time :)

> > If you want to use RHEL4 with ATrpms and don't want to create/maintain
> > a repo yoursefl, you can use up2date for the RHEL4 updates and
> > smart/apt/yum for the rest.
> 
> That's what I was trying to do by downloading Yum from ATrpms, when
> I ran into the dependancy issue - the version of rpm required for
> ATrpms version of yum is higher than the version of rpm that is
> current with Red Hat, so it appears that in order to install yum, I
> must upgrade to a non-supported version of rpm.  Is this correct,

Yes, that's correct.

> or is there a different package which uses the
> older versions of rpm ( and python, etc. ) that are part of RHEL4?

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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