Re: Setting up2date to work with yum repository
Jack Neely <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:20:06AM +0200, Jos Vos wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:17:48PM -0700, Peter Blajev wrote: > > > The problem I'm having is to configure up2date to work with the repository. I > > know this list is not for up2date discussions but I hope there is someone who > > has already done that and can give me a quick answer. > > The quick answer is: RHEL4's up2date does not work with new-style yum > repositories, although some code is there in an attempt to make it work. > I tried to fix this, but did not succeed in a reasonable timeframe, so > for X/OS Linux (our RHEL4 rebuild) I use old-style yum repositories for > up2date, created witgh yum-arch. I made some fixes too, and an > extension to fix the zero-package-size problem. The version of up2date that came out with Update 3 or 4 does handle the new-style repos. However, you have to have yum proper installed as up2date just imports yum code. In your sources file you need a line like this: repomd reponame url Jack > > See http://download.xoslinux.org/pub/xoslinux/4/i386/updates/SRPMS/up2date-4.4.69-25.XOS.2.src.rpm for the patches I made (note that the tarball is > X/OS-Linux specific, but the generic patches are included separately > in the src.rpm). > > -- > -- Jos Vos <[email protected]> > -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 > -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/rpm-metadata -- Jack Neely <[email protected]> Campus Linux Services Project Lead Information Technology Division, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89