On Friday 22 February 2008 10:56:19 Rohit B wrote:
Yeah but we did not wanted to have both the versions to run on our server or reside on our server. Also i missed out the major part that we have a complete build system where we roll out our own ISO's with custom packages.......
We also have a build system (supporting RHEL2.1->RHEL5, x86 and x86_64 where applicable), but we don't roll custom ISOs, just custom kickstarts using the ~ 500 packages in our repo.
so we have replaced every thing in the base of the OS. Even we have upgraded the db4 rpm including the openldap, cyrus,postifx and a lot more rpms.
Right, then you should consider just using the Mandriva cooker SRPM (which is usually more up-to-date then the binaries I publish at work - but I haven't quite finished 2.4.8 or 2.3.41 yet), and the compatibility macros:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Projects/BackPorts#Building_Mandriva_SRPMS_on_ot...
However, we try not to touch libraries we don't really need to touch, thus the internal copy of db4 in OpenLDAP (but, you can disable this with build-time options, e.g. --without-db4_internal), and a lot of what we use isn't available in RHEL (or Fedora for that matter), but most is in Mandriva ...
This is probably starting to get a bit too off-topic.
Regards, Buchan