Subject:
Re: Kickstart
From:
John <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 03:57:12 +0800 (WST)
To:
kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, david wrote:
there a way to "mirror" the RHN Updates to a Server so that my workstations
are not using allot of (person) time and bandwidth to download updates
Use rsync or similar to maintain a local archive. up2date won't use it
though, without some additional unsupported (by RH) hackery.
Another option, that not trickery nor unsupported.
Use the machine with most complete pakage set. That's one that has all
the packages the other machines have.
Tell up2date to not erase the pakages after installing. Now export the
directory where the packages are stored (/var/spool/up2date is the
default). On the other machines mount that some where (like
/var/spool/up2date/shared). Now configure up2date on those machines to
look in that director for packages (up2date-config,
Retrieval/Installation, Package storage directory).
Now up2date will query rhn for the packages that need updating, will see
they are already downloaded, and just upodate them useing the current
stored files.
You can also grab the updates from ftp.redhat.com or mirrors in
pub/redhat/linux/updates/<release>/<arch>,put them in a shared
directory, and point up2date at that directory. You might have unneeded
packages that way, but it might be easier to get the files.
If you do this method, you should put the files in one directory, not
the arch specfic directories. You need the files from i386, noarch, and
the actual arch you have (athlon, i586, or i686).
-Thomas
