[Yum] Building Custom Yum RPM's

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:11, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> So,
> 
> I'm building custom yum RPM's for our campus mirrors.  So I'm wondering, 
> can RedHat-8.0 run a yum-2.0 RPM built on Redhat9?  Or do I need to 
> build a yum RPM for each distro I support?  If the latter, is than an 
> easy way to maybe make a postin script ont he rpm to build the python 
> for the machine it's being built on so I don;t have to build for 7.1, 
> 7.2, 7.3, 8, and 9?
> 

You need to update 8.0's rpm to at least rpm 4.1.1 - you can get it from
here: ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x

once you do that then you can use yum-2.0 on rhl 8.0 and 9 identically -
including config file just use $releasever properly.

I think the python in rhl 8.0 and in 9 are similar enough to read the
pyc files from each.

check it to be sure, though.

you can't use yum-2.0 on 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 - and the python for them is
significantly different.

-sv