[Yum] rhel3 / rhel5

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:28 -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.
> 

you should be able to get createrepo running on rhel3 - it should build
there, it might just be an effort.

humorously enough rhel4 supports all the tools for both :)

-sv