what i'm about to suggest is blindingly simple, but really
pretty useful. for each release of red hat, i create a separate
partition and filesystem to store the directory structures of
all of the installation CDs, and mount it under /cds. i
explicitly keep the different CD contents in separate directories,
to preserve the distinction between what's on each CD, so i
end up with a directory structure that looks like
/cds/1/
2/
3/ (for 7.3, which has 3 install CDs)
so, if i want an RPM off the first CD, it's in /cds/1/RedHat/RPMS,
and so on. but wait, it gets better (he says, as most readers
are thinking, well, duh).
i then create a fourth directory, /cds/rpms, into which i
dump symlinks to all of the other three RPM directories:
# cd /cds/rpms
# ln -s /cds/1/RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm .
# ln -s /cds/2/RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm .
# ln -s /cds/3/RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm .
if i need to work with the contents of a particular CD, i have
those separate directories /cds/1, /cds/2 and so on.
OTOH, if i need any RPM, i can just go into /cds/rpms knowing
not only that all of my RPMS are there, but a quick examination
of the symlink tells me which CD it came from. no hunting through
three separate directories, and i can always install directly
using the symlinks from /cds/rpms.
rday
p.s. my apologies if this really was too painfully simple to
suggest. it's just worked really well for me.
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