[tools] repodata xml vs headers.info

[Edward Rudd]

Another option is to install apt from dag.wieers.com  His version of  
apt is patched to support repodata XML, which is what I am currently  
using on the few EL3 systems I still have.

On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:28 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote:

> John Lee wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
> <snip>
>> Why do I need to do this?  Because the problem is that my RHEL3  
>> machines are looking for the headers.info file instead (running  
>> yum 2.0.x).  Why don't I just upgrade yum version to 2.4.x on my  
>> RHEL3 machines?  Because upgrade but that also gets hairy as it  
>> has crazy dependency issues (db4, libstdc++, etc).
>>
> The CentOS guys ran a beta some time ago with Yum 2.4 for CentOS3.  
> It seemed to work fine and it didn't need any upgrades. They fixed  
> it up to work with python 2.2 and everything.
>
> More info here:
> http://blog.danieldk.org/post/2007/05/10/yum-metadata-parser-for- 
> yum-24
> Packages are here:
> http://dev.centos.org/centos/3/testing/i386/RPMS/
>
> I'm not sure why it hasn't been pushed to production, initial  
> reactions where positive.
>
> -tgc
>
>
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