CentOS - Feb 2007 - How to enable yum at startup with yum 2.9

Hi all,

I updated yum 2.4 to yum 2.9 from ATRPMS by using yum as below.

yum update yum

I now have yum 2.9.
pls see yum ver below

[root at mailgw yum]# rpm -qa |grep yum
yum-2.9.4-74.el4.at
yum-metadata-parser-1.0-7.1_1.el4.at

Before that (i.e when I was running yum 2.4), I could enable yum at startup
as below

chkconfig yum on

and I was also able to start/stop/restart yum as below.

/etc/init.d/yum restart.

I also had a crontab at /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron for updates as below.

 cat /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron

#!/bin/sh

if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then
        /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum
        /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y shell /etc/yum/yum-daily.yum
fi

But, Since I updated yum to 2.9, All those are gone.

Now I want to know that how to enable, restart yum.

And also I want ot know should I write a crontab for my daily updtaes?

Help needed.




-- 
Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya
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> I updated yum 2.4 to yum 2.9 from ATRPMS by using yum as below. 
You should *not* do that. As you already realized, it actually breaks
things.
> But, Since I updated yum to 2.9, All those are gone. 
> 
> Now I want to know that how to enable, restart yum. 
> 
> And also I want ot know should I write a crontab for my daily
> updtaes? 
> 
> Help needed. 
Probably the best guess is: 
- get a copy of the current yum rpm for CentOS 4
- uninstall the atrpms yum
- install the CentOS yum

After you have done that look into the protectbase plugin for yum[1]. It
can be used to prevent a 3rd party repository (like atrpms) from
updating the CentOS base packages, as this is usually not a good idea.

An example how it can be enabled for RPMForge[2] is also avaiable in the
Wiki[3].

Hope that helps

Andreas


[1] http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/ProtectBase
[2] http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge
[3] http://wiki.centos.org/
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