Yum does not work, and it is out of date anyways

[Mark A Gerads]

Binary package hint: yum

The latest version of yum can be found here, however, installing it doesn't work any better than installing the one in the repositories, the one in the repositories requests a model that exists, yet insists it is not installed, and the latest version asks for module yum, and I can't figure out how to compile module yum.

[Thomas Goirand (thomas-goirand)]

Hi,

I'm the maintainer of yum in Debian.

We are using this version of yum in production to bootstrap CentOS from a Lenny dom0. It does work pretty well.

When you say "installing it doesn't work any better than installing the one in the repositories", I don't understand what repository you are talking about here. Please be more specific, I don't understand either when you say "the one in the repositories requests a model that exists, yet insists it is not installed, and the latest version asks for module yum".

Thomas

[Thomas Goirand (thomas-goirand)]

After some discussion with some users, it appears that version 3.2.21 is broken, but 3.2.23 is working. This is not a surprise at all.

I believe this bug entry can be closed, and maybe 3.2.23 should be migrated to Jaunty to make it work.

Thomas

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Closing since the development version and the last stable release have a fixed version according to Thomas

       yum | 3.2.21-1 | jaunty/universe | source, all
       yum | 3.2.23-1 | karmic/universe | source, all
       yum | 3.2.23-1 | lucid/universe | source, all