On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:06:44AM -0700, Gabby James wrote: > I am using RH 9. I kickstart via an NFS server. Originally, I had copied > the RH 9 CD's to a RedHat directory on my server. I'm sure some of the > RPMs have changed since RH 9 came out, so I would like to update the RPMs > on my server so the next systems kickstarted get the updated packages. > What is the best way to do this? People on the list mentioned creating a > RHupdates directory and copying a update-disk-*.img from the RH FTP server. > Is this the way to do it? Where is this img file located at? I find older > img files but nothing for RH 9. There's probably more than one way to do it, but I think (basically) all you need to do is (a) replace the old RPMs in your installation tree with the updated ones, (b) run /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist [which is in the anaconda-runtime package], giving it the pathname to the top of your tree as an argument. I used to do this manually, now have a Perl script to do it automatically. Slightly out-of-date documentation is here: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~pas/hacks/merge_rpms/ [No warranties expressed or implied, etc.] -- -- Paul A. Sand | I keep waiting to be dragged off by the -- University of New Hampshire | Competence Police, but they're apparently -- pas@xxxxxxx | no better at their job than I am at mine. -- http://pubpages.unh.edu/~pas | (Greg Knauss, sendmail.net)
