Fwd: Problems installing Yellow Dog Linux onto Old World Mac

[Eric Dunbar]

On 22/08/06, Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>  Jeffrey allow me to express admiration for your persistence;
> congratulations are definitely in order.
>
>  As you work in YDL 3, keep in mind a few things:
>
>  1.  yum updates within a version family, not across them.  In other words,
> yum is designed such that you can update with say YDL 3.0 to YDL 3.0.1.  I
> have not seen or heard of anyone using yum to update between YDL 3.0 to YDL
> 4.0, etc.  If you take a look at the coding of yum.conf, you would notice
> that the mirrors yum.conf points to are specifically related to that version
> of YDL you are using.  Also even if you chose to rewrite yum.conf to point
> to other mirrors and versions of YDL, that is only part of the problem.  The
> components instructing yum how to behave (what to access, and install, etc.)
> reside on the mirrors and if you attempt to access them using your current
> plan you could create a problem for yourself which will make your current
> efforts look rather simple.

It is possible to 'pin' yum to update between 3.0.1 and 4.0 and some
people swore up and down on their great-great grandparent's grave that
it worked for them (and, I'm sure it did). Jeffrey posted a link to a
how-to on the subject in an earlier post.

I did it and it worked for me too, to a certain extent -- the servers
all worked flawlessly (IIRC) but I ran into some problems with
X/KDE/GNOME and trying to install/run programs. I tried fixing it for
a little while but eventually decided to wipe / and install 4.0 from
scratch (which worked nicely).