On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 00:49 -0400, James Antill wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 23:45 -0400, JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 18:02 -0400, James Antill wrote: > > > Probably the > > > biggest feature for you is that you can set: > > > > > > cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever > > > > Now that sounds interesting. > > I also forgot that it supports dynamic vars. (see man yum.conf), which > will allow you to do even more weird/wonderful things to the default > cachedir :).
OK... > > > ...so you can have one NFS dir. for both x86 and x86_64 machines (the > > > same locking as RHEL-5 though). > > > > OK, Well beside the yum binary is there a source to it I could fetch? > > Source rpms are in the same repo. "yumdownloader --source" should get > them. Ahh should have just tried. I got now. yum-3.2.27-12.el5_from_el6.src.rpm > > Have you tried to install it as a relocatable package in like /opt/yum? > > No, relocatable packages don't work in general. If you want to just try > something out then the current yum-3_2_X branch should work on RHEL-5, > info. on how to get that and run it (without installing it) is provided > at http://yum.baseurl.org/. Ok was worth asking before I tried. :-) May do a CO to check the other newer yums also. > > If nothing else I can run it in a VM. > > Fully update the VM then install the yum binary. > > Yeh, that's probably the safest thing to do. Thanks much appreciated, will let you all know how it goes. _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
