diff --git a/meta/packages/yum/createrepo-native/fix.patch b/meta/packages/yum/createrepo-native/fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fe58e379d..0000000000
--- a/meta/packages/yum/createrepo-native/fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
----
- createrepo/yumbased.py |    2 ++
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
-
-Index: createrepo-0.9/createrepo/yumbased.py
-===================================================================
---- createrepo-0.9.orig/createrepo/yumbased.py	2008-08-26 11:41:13.000000000 +0100
-+++ createrepo-0.9/createrepo/yumbased.py	2008-08-26 11:37:01.000000000 +0100
-@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ class CreateRepoPackage(YumLocalPackage)
-         self._hdrend = None
-         
-     def _xml(self, item):
-+        if item == []:
-+                return []	
-         return xml.sax.saxutils.escape(item)
-         
-     def _do_checksum(self):
diff --git a/meta/packages/yum/createrepo-native_0.9.bb b/meta/packages/yum/createrepo-native_0.9.8.bb
similarity index 93%
rename from meta/packages/yum/createrepo-native_0.9.bb
rename to meta/packages/yum/createrepo-native_0.9.8.bb
index c634ecb746..422b118ac9 100644
--- a/meta/packages/yum/createrepo-native_0.9.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/yum/createrepo-native_0.9.8.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 DEPENDS = "python-native"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://createrepo.baseurl.org/download/createrepo-${PV}.tar.gz \
-           file://fix.patch;patch=1 \
            file://pathfix.patch;patch=1 "
 PR = "r1"
 
diff --git a/meta/packages/yum/files/paths.patch b/meta/packages/yum/files/paths.patch
index 55e6a0a2ee..0175d05b34 100644
--- a/meta/packages/yum/files/paths.patch
+++ b/meta/packages/yum/files/paths.patch
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
  etc/Makefile  |   20 ++++++++++----------
  3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
 
---- yum-3.2.18.orig/Makefile
-+++ yum-3.2.18/Makefile
-@@ -16,23 +16,23 @@ clean:
- 
- subdirs:
+Index: yum-3.2.27/Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- yum-3.2.27.orig/Makefile	2010-03-04 01:10:20.000000000 +0000
++++ yum-3.2.27/Makefile	2010-03-23 13:49:50.663912930 +0000
+@@ -22,19 +22,19 @@
  	for d in $(SUBDIRS); do make PYTHON=$(PYTHON) -C $$d; [ $$? = 0 ] || exit 1 ; done
  
  install:
@@ -37,33 +37,39 @@
  
  	for d in $(SUBDIRS); do make PYTHON=$(PYTHON) DESTDIR=`cd $(DESTDIR); pwd` -C $$d install; [ $$? = 0 ] || exit 1; done
  
- .PHONY: docs test
- 
---- yum-3.2.18.orig/docs/Makefile
-+++ yum-3.2.18/docs/Makefile
-@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ all:
- clean:
- 	rm -f *.pyc *.pyo *~
+Index: yum-3.2.27/docs/Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- yum-3.2.27.orig/docs/Makefile	2009-04-07 14:57:06.000000000 +0100
++++ yum-3.2.27/docs/Makefile	2010-03-23 13:52:30.086667913 +0000
+@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
  	rm -fr epydoc
  
  install:
--	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man{5,8}
+-	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man5
+-	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8
 -	install -m 644 yum.8 $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/yum.8
 -	install -m 644 yum-shell.8 $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/yum-shell.8
 -	install -m 644 yum.conf.5 $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man5/yum.conf.5
 -	install -m 644 yum-updatesd.8 $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/yum-updatesd.8
 -	install -m 644 yum-updatesd.conf.5 $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man5/yum-updatesd.conf.5
-+	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man{5,8}
++	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man5
++	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8
 +	install -m 644 yum.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/yum.8
 +	install -m 644 yum-shell.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/yum-shell.8
 +	install -m 644 yum.conf.5 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man5/yum.conf.5
 +	install -m 644 yum-updatesd.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/yum-updatesd.8
 +	install -m 644 yum-updatesd.conf.5 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man5/yum-updatesd.conf.5
---- yum-3.2.18.orig/etc/Makefile
-+++ yum-3.2.18/etc/Makefile
-@@ -3,22 +3,22 @@ all:
+Index: yum-3.2.27/etc/Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- yum-3.2.27.orig/etc/Makefile	2009-10-26 18:56:06.000000000 +0000
++++ yum-3.2.27/etc/Makefile	2010-03-23 13:54:40.421912460 +0000
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-YUMETC=$(DESTDIR)/etc/yum
++YUMETC=$(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/yum
  
- clean:
+ all:
+ 	echo "Nothing to do"
+@@ -7,23 +7,23 @@
  	rm -f *.pyc *.pyo *~
  
  install:
@@ -72,8 +78,9 @@
 +	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/yum/
 +	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/yum/repos.d
  
--	install -m 644 yum.conf $(DESTDIR)/etc/yum/yum.conf
-+	install -m 644 yum.conf $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/yum/yum.conf
+ 	install -m 644 yum.conf $(YUMETC)/yum.conf
+ 
+ 	install -m 644 version-groups.conf $(YUMETC)/version-groups.conf
  
 -	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/etc/logrotate.d
 -	install -m 644 yum.logrotate $(DESTDIR)/etc/logrotate.d/yum
@@ -93,4 +100,7 @@
 -	install -m 755 yum-updatesd.conf $(DESTDIR)/etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
 +	install -m 755 yum-updatesd.conf $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
  
- 
+-	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/etc/bash_completion.d
+-	install -m 644 yum.bash $(DESTDIR)/etc/bash_completion.d
++	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/bash_completion.d
++	install -m 644 yum.bash $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/bash_completion.d
diff --git a/meta/packages/yum/yum-native_3.2.18.bb b/meta/packages/yum/yum-native_3.2.18.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c3578fc94..0000000000
--- a/meta/packages/yum/yum-native_3.2.18.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-HOMEPAGE = "http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/"
-
-SRC_URI = "http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/3.2/yum-${PV}.tar.gz \
-           file://hacks.patch;patch=1 \
-           file://paths.patch;patch=1 \
-	   file://yum-install-recommends.py \
-	   file://extract-postinst.awk"
-PR = "r7"
-
-DEPENDS = "rpm-native python-native python-iniparse-native python-urlgrabber-native yum-metadata-parser-native libxml2-native"
-
-inherit autotools native
-
-do_compile_append () {
-	sed -e 's#!/usr/bin/python#!${bindir}/python#' -e 's#/usr/share#${datadir}#' -i ${S}/bin/yum.py
-	sed -e 's#!/usr/bin/python#!${bindir}/python#' -e 's#/usr/share#${datadir}#' -i ${S}/bin/yum-updatesd.py
-}
-
-do_install_append () {
-	install -d ${STAGING_BINDIR}/
-	install ${WORKDIR}/extract-postinst.awk ${STAGING_BINDIR}/
-	install ${WORKDIR}/yum-install-recommends.py ${STAGING_BINDIR}/
-}
diff --git a/meta/packages/yum/yum_3.2.18.bb b/meta/packages/yum/yum_3.2.27.bb
similarity index 98%
rename from meta/packages/yum/yum_3.2.18.bb
rename to meta/packages/yum/yum_3.2.27.bb
index 50211e7147..e51aacd562 100644
--- a/meta/packages/yum/yum_3.2.18.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/yum/yum_3.2.27.bb
@@ -39,3 +39,5 @@ pkg_postinst_yum () {
 }
 
 FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/python* ${datadir}/yum-cli"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
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