On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 12:21, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > > > 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). > Rather than going through all this work you could use something like yum: http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/ it can easily take rhl systems and update them to all the current versions of things from the errata. We use it for just that on a pile of machines at duke. just setup a web or ftp server, download the errata run yum-arch [top level directory] install yum on your clients and yum update. very simple and works well with rhl 7.x and 8.0 significantly smaller and easier to understand than apt-get and none of the weird registration mess that up2date has. -sv
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
