Keeping 1 RHEL directory tree

[Tom Diehl]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:

> Since a lot of the rpms between the 3 RH Enterprise version appear
> to be the same, is it possible to have one Enterprise Kickstart tree 
> with all the rpms from these three version and then specify in your 
> ks.cfg via package list, or some other way, which Enterprise version 
> to install?

Doing so will break things. IIRC, there are less than 20 packages that
are different across all of the different versions of RHEL3. The problem
arises if you want to have the various systems updated with up2date then
they must have the correct version of the redhat-release rpm installed.
The easiest way to maintain them is to make a tree for each version then
run the hardlink program across the trees. This saves ~3 Gig here. That
way you can just point the your ks-cfg at the proper tree and get the
correct set of rpms. One other thing to keep in mind is that the first
CD of each version contains the packages that are different. CD's 2-4
are the same. Even the md5sums are the same. Do not waste time downloading
more than 1 full set.

HTH,

Tom