Multi-OS release rpm management.

I'm looking for advice thoughts on best practices and real world
practices in multi-OS release rpm management. I maintain 13 different
Red Hat releases (RH 6.2 - RHEL 4) and one Solaris 10 w/RPM in our
environment and was wondering what is common practice with installing
and maintaining packages across OS releases. It is not uncommon to have
8 different packages that I would need to install if I wanted to use
the latest available for all releases. This seems like a management
nightmare and I'm wondering what others do in these circumstances.

I have no choice but to support these systems do to in-house
applications that will only run on the specific releases.

Comments, links to web sites or reading suggestions appreciated.

-- Ian

Ian wrote:
> I'm looking for advice thoughts on best practices and real world
> practices in multi-OS release rpm management. I maintain 13 different
> Red Hat releases (RH 6.2 - RHEL 4) and one Solaris 10 w/RPM in our
> environment and was wondering what is common practice with installing
> and maintaining packages across OS releases. It is not uncommon to have
> 8 different packages that I would need to install if I wanted to use
> the latest available for all releases. This seems like a management
> nightmare and I'm wondering what others do in these circumstances.
>
> I have no choice but to support these systems do to in-house
> applications that will only run on the specific releases.
>
> Comments, links to web sites or reading suggestions appreciated.
>
> -- Ian
>
hi Ian,

have a look on :

http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
http://www.the-greenman.net/?q=node/7

http://m23.sourceforge.net/PostNuke-0.750/html/index.php?newlang=eng

http://adamoto.sourceforge.net/

maybe can help you...

regards,
paul