Re: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Jason Corley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think you'll have any luck with asking SL for a yum upgrade,
> CentOS also has chosen to stay with the same version of yum. According
> to the createrepo web site (http://createrepo.baseurl.org/) the
> version we have on our server is incompatible with yum < 3.2.23 (and I
> do not know how well the old version works with newer clients). I'm
> not sure if we can work around it yet, I'm still looking into it. As
> our server is a shared box with other projects we do not control the
> software on it.
> Jason

Is there a timetable on how long support for RHEL 4 should continue?
And if the software building structure is automated, such as a "mock"
based system, it would be reasonable to put in the following for the
.spec files:

Release: 1%{?dist}

Then the builds could *all* be built for the specific OS, including
RHEL 4 or 5 or x86_64 instead of just noarch and i386, and deposited
in matching OS specific repositories. It would expand the build
infrastructure and the overall site size quite significantly, but the
adventures necessary to install JPackage utilities such as ecj
gracefully on RHEL 4 are fairly odd, and might benefit from such a
separation for the whole repository.