On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Jason P Holland wrote: > > Hello all, > I was wondering if anyone knows of any tools already written or hanging > around that can automate keeping an installation repository of rpms > uptodate with the current patched rpms?? I have a kickstart setup working > great, but I currently have to manually pull down the updates, remove the > old rpm's and replace them with the updated ones. I do that, but automatically on first boot. A script to automate this would rpm --freshen modutils # because a new kernel may require it Check for and "rpm --install" the latest appropriate kernel check for and "rpm --upgrade" glibc # glibc has an i686.rpm, and in the past has been repackaged. Both require special action. You should then be able to "rpm --freshen" the rest. My script is cruder than that, featuring loops and examination of error message to discover missing prerequisites. Hopefully, the technique I describe here will work better. -- Please, reply only to the list.
