How do you guys handle custom yum repository?

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Published on 2010-04-10T22:46:10Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 22:53 UTC
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I have a bunch of tools (nagios, munin, puppet, etc...) that gets installed on all my servers. I'm in the process of building a local yum repository. I know most folks just dump all the rpms into a single folder (broken down into the correct path) and then run createrepo inside the directory. However, what would happen if you had to update the rpms?

I ask because I was going to throw each software into its own folder.

Example one, put all packages inside one folder (custom_software)

/admin/software/custom_software/5.4/i386
/admin/software/custom_software/5.4/x86_64
/admin/software/custom_software/4.6/i386
/admin/software/custom_software/4.6/x86_64

What I'm thinking of ...

/admin/software/custom_software/nagios/5.4/i386
/admin/software/custom_software/nagios/5.4/x86_64
/admin/software/custom_software/nagios/4.6/i386
/admin/software/custom_software/nagios/4.6/x86_64
/admin/software/custom_software/puppet/5.4/i386
/admin/software/custom_software/puppet/5.4/x86_64
/admin/software/custom_software/puppet/4.6/i386
/admin/software/custom_software/puppet/4.6/x86_64

Ths way, if I had to update to the latest version of puppet, I can save manage the files accordingly. I wouldn't know which rpms belong to which software if I threw them into one big folder. Makes sense?

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