Old yum? New yum? Re: Typo in yum instructions

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 16:26 -0600, David Eisenstein wrote:
> 
> I run Fedora Core 1, and have its yum (yum-2.0.4-2 from the original FC1
> distro) installed.  Is this the "new" yum?  Or is the yum in updates for
> FC1 (yum-2.0.5-1) the new yum?  If not, how do I go about getting the new
> yum?  Will both the old and new yums work with fedoralegacy download
> sites, and/or other repositories?

There is yum 2.0.x that is in FC1 and FC2, not sure about FC3.  Yums
greater than 2.1 or 2.2 have a new metadata format that they use.  This
is the 'old yum' vs 'new yum' that we're talking about.  I have enabled
both formats to work on the Legacy mirrors.

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