[WBEL-users] YUM Questions

[WGPuckett at aol.com]

I finally got WBEL3 installed on two machines.  And I was able to use  the 
"YUM UPDATE" command to bring all the installed RPMs up to date. Now I  want to 
start installing a few additional packages, such as SWAT.  
 
I started having some problems early on with failovers and seem to have  that 
mostly resolved after locating some forums where they suggested some  updates 
to the YUM config file.
 
Now I am trying to get a group list.  I am running the command "yum  
grouplist".  It executes for some time.  The I get the following  messages:
 
Gathering header information files(s) from server(s)
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Getting groups from servers
No groups provided or accessabel on any server
Exiting
 
What is keeping the grouplist from working properly?
 
Now a more generic question about yum and rpm's in general.  I wanted  to 
install the latest version of yum (I have v2.2).  I couldn't figure out  how to 
tell yum to install a newer version of software.  It just appears to  install 
the latest release at the same version level.  So I downloaded yum  v2.4 and 
tried to install using rpm.  A prereq for yum v2.4 is python  v2.3.  So I 
downloaded the rpm for python v2.3 and attempted to install it  using rpm.  It won't 
install because there is a ton of other software that  requires python to be 
at the current version (v2.2).  How do you manage  these upgrades?  I want to 
tell YUM/RPM to bring some of my software up to  more current versions yet it 
means a vast set of updates to other  software.  That's ok with me but I can't 
see a way to tell yum just to take  care of it all.  Is there an easy answer 
to this?
 
I have been searching the message boards but so far haven't been able to  
find an answer.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Glenn Puckett
Lexington, KY
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