Problem adding yum repositories & yum crashes

[Derick Centeno]

Thanks Matthias for your suggestion I tried it and this is what happens:

[root@arakus aguila]# ls
_001.gif               chessinstructor.html  resumewriting.html
_002.gif               dhcp-router_files     teacher_files
_003.gif               dhcp-router.shtml     teacher.html
article.pl_files       evolution            
yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr.noarch.rpm
article.pl.html        New Res.pdf
chessinstructor_files  resumewriting_files
[root@arakus aguila]# rpm -Uvh yum*.rpm
warning: yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
        rpm >= 4.1.1 is needed by yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr
        libxml2-python is needed by yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr
        gnupg is needed by yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr
[root@arakus aguila]#

The problem with rpm's is that one never knows when these dependencies
will crop up.  Besides, what does that first line mean:
rpm >= ???

Thanks for the time and your thoughts....
Sincerely, Derick.
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 06:04, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Derick Centeno wrote :
> 
> > [root@arakus aguila]# yum update yum
> > Gathering package information from servers
> > Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.01 updates
> > Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux $releasever - $basearch -
> > freshrpms
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> [...]
> > 
> > Assistance would be helpful on this... 
> > Thanks...
> 
> Looks like yum doesn't do the right replacement of $releasever or
> $basearch... maybe upgrading to the latest yum version (2.0.7) would be a
> good idea and probably fix the problem.
> 
> You can just :
> rpm -Uvh \
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/yellowdog/3.0/yum/yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr.noarch.rpm
> 
> Matthias