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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Installing yum and createrepo Post 302467970 by Scrutinizer on Monday 1st of November 2010 06:27:48 AM
Old 11-01-2010
It appears you are installing RHEL5 packages to a RHEL4 system. This is not a good idea. You need to either upgrade from version 4 to version 5 or preferrably do a fresh install. If you still want to upgrade first bring your RHEL4 system up-to-date to the latest RHEL4 version from the RHN or an installation DVD.
See upgrading your system
Good luck!

---------- Post updated at 11:27 ---------- Previous update was at 11:22 ----------

O dear, only now I noticed you are on RHEL3 . In that case I think the only serious option is to do fresh install...
 

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repotrack(1)															      repotrack(1)

NAME
repotrack - track a package and its dependencies and download them SYNOPSIS
repotrack [options] package1 [package2...] DESCRIPTION
repotrack is a program for keeping track of a particular package and its dependencies. It will download one or more packages and all depen- dencies. OPTIONS
-h, --help Display a help message, and then quit. -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG Config file to use (defaults to /etc/yum.conf). -a ARCH, --arch=ARCH Act as if running the specified arch (default: current arch). -r REPOID, --repoid=REPOID Specify repo ids to query, can be specified multiple times (default is all enabled). -t, --tempcache Use a temp dir for storing/accessing yum-cache. -p DESTDIR, --download_path=DESTDIR Path to download packages to. -u, --urls Instead of downloading RPMs, list the URLs that would be downloaded. -n, --newest Toggle downloading only the newest packages (defaults to newest-only). -q, --quiet Output as little information as possible. SEE ALSO
yum.conf (5) http://yum.baseurl.org/ AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program. 13 January 2013 repotrack(1)
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