[WBEL-users] Updates

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 20:25 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> John Morris said:
> > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 12:29, Craig White wrote:
> >
> >> Still wondering about what would be proper repositories:
> >>
> >>
> >> /etc/yum.conf
> >> [base] ### note whitespace removed ###
> >> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
> >> baseurl=ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/os/
> >> $basearch/
> >> ftp://ftp.kspei.com/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox/$releasever/en/os
> >> /$basearch/
> >>
> >
> > Oh yes I forgot that yum doesn't grab the list each update.  Need to
> > make sure respin2 includes an updated list and probably should have a cut &
> > paste version on the webpage.
> 
> Another option would be to bump up to yum-2.1.x so that it will.  This
> will involve keeping up two sets of data for the repo, though (repodata
> and headers), because up2date isn't using the new repodata yet.
> 
> A quick look doesn't show any problems with the WBEL version of RPM and
> the new yum, but that would need testing.
> 

The new yum (2.1.x)  doesn't modify /boot/grub/menu.lst and set the new
kernel to default when doing kernel upgrades ... (in the new FC and
rhel4 kernels, that is done by I think mkinitrd ... or at least some
other way ... so yum 2.1.x wasn't designed to do it).

I also can verify that up2date (even the latest RHEL4 one) still uses
the old yum headers ... I have to use both createrepo and yum-arch for
CentOS-4beta since we are using yum 2.1.x.

-- 
Johnny Hughes
<http://www.HughesJR.com/>