[Lustre-discuss] NAME field in lustre-client rpms

[Michael Sternberg]

I was trying to install a patchless client of lustre-1.6.7.1 on  
RHEL-5.3 from a local yum repository and noticed an oddity with the  
rpm metadata:  the NAME fields of the "lustre-client" rpms are the  
same as in the patched-kernel rpms.  I looked back at all the versions  
I've used (1.6.x), and saw that this has always been the case there,  
so apparently that's by design, e.g.:

   lustre-1.6.7.1-2.6.18_92.1.17.el5_lustre.1.6.7.1smp.x86_64.rpm
   lustre-modules-1.6.7.1-2.6.18_92.1.17.el5_lustre. 
1.6.7.1smp.x86_64.rpm
vs.
   lustre-client-1.6.7.1-2.6.18_92.1.17.el5_lustre.1.6.7.1smp.x86_64.rpm
   lustre-client-modules-1.6.7.1-2.6.18_92.1.17.el5_lustre. 
1.6.7.1smp.x86_64.rpm

# rpm -qip lustre-[1mc]*rpm  | grep Name
Name        : lustre                       Relocations: (not  
relocatable)
Name        : lustre                       Relocations: (not  
relocatable)
Name        : lustre-modules               Relocations: (not  
relocatable)
Name        : lustre-modules               Relocations: (not  
relocatable)

This means that the patched and patchless rpms collide in a yum  
repository, and only one will be available for installation (the last  
by collation, I believe).

This is the first time I've tried to use the patchless client.   
However, I've put it on the back burner (since there is no support yet  
for the RHEL-5.3 kernel) and pulled it out of my yum repo.

Still, how could one serve both the patched and patchless lustre rpms  
out of the same yum repository?


Regards, Michael