Troy Dawson wrote:
> Howdy,
> In preparation for S.L. 42, I have built the new 2.4 yum.  For the S.L. 
> 4x series, we needed to move to yum 2.4, which has the ability to have 
> plugins.
> Why do we need plugins?
> Well, because it is the easiest way for us to deal with kernel modules.
> Many thanks go to the yum team for their continual development, and many 
> more thanks go to Panu Matilainen for creating the kernel-module plugin.
> In addition, we also have yumex (Yum Extender), and yumex-applet.
> yumex is a very nice graphical front ent to yum.  My favorite part is 
> the ability to select, and deselect repositories.
> yumex-applet replaces the normal rhn update throbber.  It looks the 
> exact same, it's just that it uses yum and yumex as the back end.
> 
> How to get these now?
>   yum --enable=sl-contrib update yum\*
>   yum --enable=sl-contrib install yumex\*
> 
> Please give them a try.
> If nothing else, the new yum will automatically get your openafs kernel 
> module for you with this kernel that is out, and soon to hit the errata 
> area. (we're still getting everything finallized)
> 
> Troy
One Note
The new yum has some dependancies because of the new way it does things. 
  You will also need the new yum-conf that you will see.  The only 
difference between this one and the older yum-conf is that in 
/etc/yum.conf it has plugin's configured and turned on.

So when you do the "yum --enable=sl-contrib update yum\*"

It will update
   yum
   yum-conf
and it will install
   python-elementtree
   python-sqlite
   sqlite
   urlgrabber

Troy
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