Running yum-3.2.8 on CentOS 4.7
Today I spent a few hours testing and backporting yum-3.2.8 from CentOS 5.2 to CentOS 4.7. It wasn’t so hard to backport. Most of the time I have spent on testing and searching. Code is patched to allow sets, which are supported in python 2.3 
) and that’s almost all. Final rpms are available for testing here:
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/testing/i386/repoview/
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/testing/x86_64/repoview/
[root@webmel4 ~]# yum update yum Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Reading repository metadata in from local files Reducing CentOS.Karan.Org-EL4 - Stable to included packages only Finished Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for yum to pack into transaction set. yum-3.2.8-9.el4.hrb.2.1.1 100% |=========================| 29 kB 00:00 ---> Package yum.noarch 0:3.2.8-9.el4.hrb.2.1.1 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: python-iniparse for package: yum --> Processing Conflict: yum-metadata-parser conflicts yum >= 3.0 --> Processing Dependency: yum-fastestmirror for package: yum --> Processing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0 for package: yum --> Processing Dependency: yum < 2.5 for package: yum-utils --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for yum-utils to pack into transaction set. yum-utils-1.1.10-9.el4.hr 100% |=========================| 9.7 kB 00:00 ---> Package yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.10-9.el4.hrb.1 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for yum-fastestmirror to pack into transaction set. yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10- 100% |=========================| 7.0 kB 00:00 ---> Package yum-fastestmirror.noarch 0:1.1.10-9.el4.hrb.1 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for python-iniparse to pack into transaction set. python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.e 100% |=========================| 5.3 kB 00:00 ---> Package python-iniparse.noarch 0:0.2.3-4.el4.hrb set to be updated ---> Downloading header for yum-metadata-parser to pack into transaction set. yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB 00:00 ---> Package yum-metadata-parser.i386 0:1.1.2-2.el4.hrb set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: yum noarch 3.2.8-9.el4.hrb.2.1.1 hrb-testing 506 k Installing for dependencies: python-iniparse noarch 0.2.3-4.el4.hrb hrb-testing 34 k yum-fastestmirror noarch 1.1.10-9.el4.hrb.1 hrb-testing 10 k Updating for dependencies: yum-metadata-parser i386 1.1.2-2.el4.hrb hrb-testing 24 k yum-utils noarch 1.1.10-9.el4.hrb.1 hrb-testing 58 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 2 Package(s) Update 3 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 633 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/5): yum-utils-1.1.10-9 100% |=========================| 58 kB 00:00 (2/5): yum-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================| 10 kB 00:00 (3/5): python-iniparse-0. 100% |=========================| 34 kB 00:00 (4/5): yum-3.2.8-9.el4.hr 100% |=========================| 506 kB 00:00 (5/5): yum-metadata-parse 100% |=========================| 24 kB 00:00 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Updating : yum-metadata-parser ######################### [1/9] Installing: python-iniparse ######################### [2/9] Updating : yum [3/9]warning: /etc/yum.conf created as /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew Updating : yum ######################### [3/9] Updating : yum-utils ######################### [4/9] Installing: yum-fastestmirror ######################### [5/9] Cleanup : yum-utils ######################### [6/9] Removing : yum-plugin-fastestmirror ######################### [7/9] Cleanup : yum ######################### [8/9] Cleanup : yum-metadata-parser ######################### [9/9] Dependency Installed: python-iniparse.noarch 0:0.2.3-4.el4.hrb yum-fastestmirror.noarch 0:1.1.10-9.el4.hrb.1 Updated: yum.noarch 0:3.2.8-9.el4.hrb.2.1.1 Dependency Updated: yum-metadata-parser.i386 0:1.1.2-2.el4.hrb yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.10-9.el4.hrb.1 Complete!
Everything works fine. Now it’s time to publish and make some public QA. As you can see, it handles obsolete packages!
[root@webmel4 ~]# yum install hrb-foo Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * kbs-CentOS-Extras: centos.karan.org * fasttrack: ftp.fi.muni.cz * hrb-kernel-stable: fs12.vsb.cz * update: ftp.fi.muni.cz * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de * hrb-testing: fs12.vsb.cz * base: ftp.fi.muni.cz * addons: ftp.fi.muni.cz * hrb-stable: fs12.vsb.cz * extras: ftp.fi.muni.cz Reducing CentOS.Karan.Org-EL4 - Stable to included packages only Finished Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package hrb-bar.noarch 0:1-1.el4.hrb set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: hrb-bar noarch 1-1.el4.hrb hrb-testing 2.1 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 2.1 k Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command Complete!