yum for RTEMS 4.7 tools

[Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>]

Chris Caudle wrote:

>Yum seems to complain that the path:
>http://ftp.rtems.com/ftp/pub/rtems/linux/redhat/7.3/$basearch/yum/rtems-4.7
>does not contain a repomd.xml file needed.  In fact,  there seems to be an 
>entire repodata directory missing.
>
>However, the 4.6 directory also does not have a repodata directory, and people 
>apparently got yum to work with the 4.6 tools.  Am I missing something, or is 
>yum no longer working to install the tools binaries?
>
>From searching around various web sites with yum info, it seems that yum 
>changed around the end of 2004 to use XML files to describe package metadata.  
>Are the files on the RTEMS.com server being created with the old yum-arch 
>tool instead of the newer creatrerepo tool?  I think that might explain my 
>problems (I am using yum 2.4.1 on fedora core 4).
>
>  
>
I must admit that to a large extent, I trust what Ralf
tells me on this one. :)

I do this to update the information on ftp.rtems.com:

aptate --dist-id=redhat-7.3-i386 --rebuild-comp=rtems-4.6
aptate --dist-id=redhat-7.3-i386 --rebuild-comp=rtems-4.7

The rtems server has yum 2.0.5 on it. 

There are plans for a machine and OS upgrade in the next few months.  
There are a couple of sysadmin tasks ahead of that.

Does this give you a clue?

--joel