Re: rhel3 / rhel5

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:28:12PM -0600, Ed Brown wrote:
> Is anyone hosting both rhel3 and rhel5 repos on the same rhel3, or 
> rhel5, system?  Do you use the same metadata creation tool on both 
> repos?  What yum versions are used on the respective client systems?
> 
> Right now our rhel3 clients use yum-2.0.4-1, and yum-arch from the 
> same package, for the repo metadata on a rhel3 server.   The rhel5 
> clients use yum-3.0-5.4, with createrepo-0.4.4-2.fc6 used to, um, 
> create the repo on an rhel5 server.  Is it best to continue to 
> maintain these repos separately, hosted on their respective target 
> platforms?  I can't seem to resolve dependency issues in trying to 
> consolidate on a common metadata tool/client tool.

FC6 has a "yum-arch" package in Extras. You might be able to install
this on RHEL5 so that you can do all your metadata creation on RHEL5. I
do both yum-arch and createrepo on my FC6 box.
--
Michael