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

[Brian Wood]

I thought yum was distributed as a "noarch" package, not really a binary 
or a source package, and it is installed with a n "i" or a "U" just like 
a binary, and with no machine architecture specified (hence the name).

Of course I have been known to be wrong about these things, more times 
that I care to remember :-)

Geert Janssens wrote:

>Dear Kevin,
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>What do you mean, it doesn't work?
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>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.
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>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.
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>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:
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>su -
>rpmbuild <packagename>
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>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).
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>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.
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>Geert
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