John Alberts wrote: > Just thought I would update everyone on my progress on getting yum > working with CentOS 5.3 for vserver. > I'm sorry to say, the yum 3.2.4 chroot patch does not work on the yum > 3.2.19-18 rpm. I've never attempted to patch a source tarball and I > don't know python, but I've spent quite a few hours trying to create a > patch that will work. There are quite a few differences between the > versions. Although I was able to create a patch and get a newly built > rpm installed, I haven't been able to get a working yum. There's > always some python errors, so I guess my patching skills really suck. > I may work on this a bit more, but for now, unfortunately, I have > other things I need to work on. > > John I just build yum-3.2.19-18.noarch.rpm. I don't have a system right now to test it on. If anyone wants to give it a whirl let me know. I'll email the RPM or if someone has a good drop point. Otherwise here is the process I used. Following (loosely) the instructions at http://linux-vserver.org/Yum-patch 1. Downloaded (wget) the src rpm from ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.centos.org/5.3/os/SRPMS/yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.src.rpm into /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS 2. rpm -i yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.src.rpm 3. cd /usr/src/SORUCES 4. Download (wget) the patch from http://svn.linux-vserver.org/svn/util-vserver/trunk/contrib/yum-3.2.19-chroot.patch 5. cd /usr/src/redhat/SPEC 6. vim yum.spec and added a line "Patch4: yum-3.2.19-chroot.patch" right after "Patch3: yum-ia64-multilib.patch (line 20) and a line "%patch4 -p1" right after "%patch3 -p1" (line 106) 7. rpmbuild -ba yum.spec There was one small hitch. To build on my non-Vserver, very yum/repo abused, recently updated to CentOS 5.3 workstation I had to install intltool to get the build to work. \\||/ Rod --