[Yum] Supporting multiple OS versions with local repo

[Ian Mortimer]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 17:00 -0400, Greg Ward wrote:

> I cannot think of a good way to do this.  I can think of a nasty way,
> which is to use "rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release" to figure out if this is
> fedora, redhat, or centos and proceed from there. Is there a better
> approach?

The way I do this is to set up virtual servers on the repo server and
DNS aliases redhat and fedora.  The RHEL/Centos go to:

baseurl = http://redhat.our.domain/$releasever/$basearch/...

The fedora clients go to:

baseurl = http://fedora.our.domain/$releasever/$basearch/...

The virtual server config translates that to the relevant directory.

The repo config has to be configured appropriately at install time
on each client which means checking /etc/redhat-release
or /etc/fedora-release.  (I do that in the kickstart %post.)

Another way would be to set $YUM0 in the environment and use that in
your local repo config.

I don't know of any simpler way to do it.


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Ian