[ydl-gen] fresh new yum.conf file via an rpm

[Geert Janssens]

Dear Kevin,

What do you mean, it doesn't work?

I have told you in at least two mails before that without detailed error 
descriptions, it's very hard to help you. Please make it a habit to detail 
your problems.

Based on what I see in you mail now, it looks as if you are trying to install 
a source rpm. Those can't be installed. Or more precisely, when you install 
them, you really install a source package, ready to be compiled.

What you would want, is either a binary package (for PowerPC, you can 
recognize them because their name has 'ppc' instead of 'src'), or you can 
build the source package:

su -
rpmbuild <packagename>

The resulting binary package wil be found in /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/
(This last one is from the top of my head, since I don't have ydl installed 
right now).

Just one warning though if you are going to build the package yourself: the 
package you tried to install is a package coming from the fedora core 4 
distribution (see the fc4 in the name ?), and I'm not sure you can build this 
on yld4. I mean, I am not sure you can meet all the dependencies that your 
fc4 package requires. But it's easy to find out: just try the build.

Geert


On Thursday 8 September 2005 08:12, Kevin McMahon wrote:
> I would like to install a new yum.conf file since I trashed the other
> one can any one tell how to do this, I tried this 'rpm Uvh
> yum-2.4.0.0.fc4.src.rpm' and it does not work. I need to install it into
> the /etc directory to replace the missing one, any help would be greatly
> appreciated
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