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
