On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:27, John wrote: > 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. > Freshen will routinely get things not-quite-right for whats really needed. If you want to update a computer post-install I'd recommend any of the following: yum up2date apt-rpm If you want to update an install tree with the most current pkgs for more installs there are a bunch of tree updating options. one is not terribly flexible but is a "proof of concept" here: http://www.dulug.duke.edu/treetools/ -sv
