Notes on Yum Changes

[Ricardo Veguilla]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 11:37 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Sunday, September 05, 2004 10:17 PM -0400 seth vidal 
> <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 1. Yum will no longer work with repositories generated with yum-arch.
> > The new format and the old format do not conlict with each other so
> > if you want to run createrepo and yum-arch on a single repository
> > that will work just fine. However, the new yum will not support
> > old-style repositories and there are no plans at this time to make
> > it possible.
> 
> Which well-known repositories have the new metadata? Fedora base, update, 
> development, testing? Dag? AT?
> 

Both Dag and Freshrpms are using the new metadata.  

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Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla at hpcf.upr.edu>