On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:42:21AM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "JPH" == Jason P Holland <Jason> writes:
>
> JPH> I was wondering if anyone knows of any tools already
> JPH> written or hanging around that can automate keeping an
> JPH> installation repository of rpms uptodate with the current patched
> JPH> rpms??
>
> The responses I've seen so far didn't seem to address the issue.
> There was a discussion on this last about a month ago where a few
> tools were listed; I ended up using one written in Perl called
> "update_rpms". When configured with the appropriate paths, it asks
> you about each updated RPM and makes a hard link from the updates
> directory into the installation repository (so you only keep one copy
> around).
>
> It seems to work well enough. I don't recall where the script came
> from, but I can send a copy if you can't find it in the archives.
That was me :-). Glad it's working out for you. I have a newer version
that's a little smarter about version/release comparisons.
(Specifically, it doesn't offer to replace a "newer" RPM with an "older"
one, based on version/release comparison.)
The URL is
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~pas/update_rpms
I won't repeat last month's message in its entirety, but anyone
interested should read it here (especially the disclaimer :-):
http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/kickstart-list/msg06373.html
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