I use AutoUpdate to maintain my distro. I just have a cron job that runs after autoupdate that runs genhdlist. In fact, I am currently updating it to use a separate directory to download the new rpms into, then I will have scripts that will send me an email to let me know that new rpms are waiting. I can then update my test machine and make sure that there are no problems with the new packages, then I can go to a web page and incorporate the new rpms into my distro. Ron Reed -----Original Message----- From: Christian L Pearce [mailto:pearcec@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:50 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: integrating updates I have been working on this problem off and on for about a year. I essentially do what most of us do and that is to put together some scripts that munge the updates to a distro directory. I decided to take it a step further and make a project out of it. I am calling it kick2date. (nice huh?) The official site (projects.commnav.com/desktop/kick2date) isn't exactly ready for prime time, but then again the project itself isn't much. So I set up a quick one in my public_html directory. http://users.commnav.com/~pearcec/ I made it into an rpm for easy installation. The documentation is written in docbook. I know overkill, but I wanted to learn it. The build and releasing is done with ant. Again overkill but ant is a great tool. Project goals : * painless installation and upgrading * multiple distributions * 100% proper merging off all rpms (by this I mean the updated distro directory should be that of what Red Hat would release) * Great documentation to explain how to create the distro directory, from both iso images and CD-ROMs. Explain the setup of http, nfs, or ftp. * Provide a good forum for an online community Future ideas : * Add support for different mirrors * Add support for auto updating. (By this I mean install kick2date as a client to your kickstart server. The client will be intelligent enough to seek out your updates directory, whether it is accessible ftp, http or nfs. With a little configuration of course) * Scripts for creating CD-ROMs with updated rpms The documentation is include in the rpm in html form. The documentation is in flux, but you should be able to figure it out. Also the site listed in the rpm info isn't ready yet. GIve it a go. I am interested in what everyone has to say. And if the logo doesn't make you want to download it. I don't know what will. -- Christian Pearce www.commnav.com On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:25:08 -0500 (EST), Derek Vadala wrote: > > Is there an easy way of integrating rpm files from the updates tree into > the main distribution tree? I could write some Perl to do this, but I > don't want to reinvent the wheel. It's also a bit of a pain because there > isn't really a standard naming scheme (though there are a minimum of > deviations. > > I've googled a bit for this, but it seems like everyone out there has > avoided automating this part. > > -- > Derek Vadala, derek@xxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
