yum / createrepo version for CentOS 5 builder

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 18:01 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 10:52 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 17:46 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> > > Apparently there have been some large
> > > changes between 0.9.8-2 and 0.9.8-5 which have made the latter somewhat
> > > incompatible with mergerepo.
> > > 
> > 
> > ????
> > 
> > I'm just glancing through the git logs and I don't see anything serious
> > or obviously incompatible.
> > 
> > some more info n the above claim would be helpful.
> 
> I may have been hasty in blaming createrepo.  It may also be the
> difference between yum-3.2.22 and yum-3.2.23.
> 
> The newRepo task under createrepo-0.9.8-5 and yum-3.2.23 gave a total
> package count of 19137/16961 which seemed to indicate that it was a
> concatenation of release and updates rather than the latest packages.
> 
> More seriously (but probably yum rather than createrepo), I was getting 
> 
> File "/usr/sbin/kojid", line 558,
> in getPackageList
>    for h in ts.dbMatch(): 
> TypeError: rpmdb open failed
> 
> at the end of a package build.  Downgrading to yum-3.2.22 and
> createrepo-0.9.8-2 fixed both bugs.
> 

yum 3.2.22 from upstream? or yum 3.2.22 from rhel?

b/c  3.2.22 from rhel has A LOT of patches.

-sv