CentOS - Mar 2007 - RHEL4 - which yum version?

I'm looking at this document to convert RHEL4 systems to Yum and setup 
an updates repository.

http://sial.org/howto/yum/

Which version of yum would you recommend for that? What would be the 
dependencies that need to be installed? Any guidelines for installing 
Yum on RHEL4 without breaking the RPM dependencies and stuff (and with 
minimal changes to the system)?

The document recommends yum-2.0.7, but that's pretty old, I guess.

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Florin Andrei spake the following on 3/29/2007 11:54 AM:
> I'm looking at this document to convert RHEL4 systems to Yum and setup
> an updates repository.
> 
> http://sial.org/howto/yum/
> 
> Which version of yum would you recommend for that? What would be the
> dependencies that need to be installed? Any guidelines for installing
> Yum on RHEL4 without breaking the RPM dependencies and stuff (and with
> minimal changes to the system)?
> 
> The document recommends yum-2.0.7, but that's pretty old, I guess.
> 
Wouldn't this break things enough to lose the RedHat support?
If so, you might as well migrate to CentOS.

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:54:55AM -0700, Florin Andrei enlightened
us:
> I'm looking at this document to convert RHEL4 systems to Yum and setup 
> an updates repository.
> 
> http://sial.org/howto/yum/
> 
> Which version of yum would you recommend for that? What would be the 
> dependencies that need to be installed? Any guidelines for installing 
> Yum on RHEL4 without breaking the RPM dependencies and stuff (and with 
> minimal changes to the system)?
> 
> The document recommends yum-2.0.7, but that's pretty old, I guess.
I would recommend looking at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/YumOnRHEL

Matt

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:54:55 -0700
Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> I'm looking at this document to convert RHEL4 systems to Yum and setup 
> an updates repository.
> 
> http://sial.org/howto/yum/
> 
> Which version of yum would you recommend for that? What would be the 
> dependencies that need to be installed? Any guidelines for installing 
> Yum on RHEL4 without breaking the RPM dependencies and stuff (and with 
> minimal changes to the system)?
> 
> The document recommends yum-2.0.7, but that's pretty old, I guess.
> 

# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 4 - i386
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
#
# Add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
#
	yum rpmforge http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag

No experience with any other repository.

Regards, Bob

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