Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts

[Hari Sekhon]

Randal, Phil wrote:
> The latest version now works fine on my CentOS 5.1 boxes.
>
> Now all we need is a version which works with python 2.3 so I can check
> our CentOS / RHEL 4 boxes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil 
I have a couple of RHEL 4 boxes too but since they didn't ship with yum 
this didn't seem so relevant. I tried putting yum on one of them a 
couple of years back and I have to say it was an absolutely awful 
experience.

I had done a relatively minimal install and was then tryied installing 
yum both by rpm and by source install, both of which landed me in a very 
bad and messed up circular dependency hell that I couldn't solve without 
breaking some other stuff. I mean I tried everything, and that was the 
last time I ever tried a minimal redhat installation (minimal == lower 
attack surface and all that best practice stuff which redhat never 
seemed to get into - otherwise I have to go round disabling so much junk 
on their systems), a very poor choice for tight control and 
maintainability compared to gentoo or debian (but I digress).

Did you install yum manually on RHEL 4?
Do you use this as the primary package management tool on RHEL 4 and 
does it receive security updates? I would have thought not since RedHat 
only shipped this in version 5 which is why the plugin makes no effort 
for previous versions of RHEL... but I could be wrong.

I figure that upgrades to the version 5 with it's first half-decent 
package management system using yum by default will solve this, but if 
anyone wants to correct me or share their experience, feel free and I 
may reconsider.

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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