On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > I want to keep my RedHat RPM repository up to date with the latest > updates for new kickstart installs as well as yum'fying the same RPM > area so my current installed machines can be kept up to date. The big > problem is merging the new RPMs into the repository and deleting the old > versions. > > Just curious what types of tools other people use to do this. > > What I have found so far is autoupdate . There is not much else out there. > What you want is (for a knowledge jumpstart): http://www-gat.univ-lille1.fr/~hafidi/deploy_and_maintain_howto/html/index.html Basically you're going to want to mirror the Red Hat repos (using ftp or rsync) and then do some post processing on the repos to merge in the updates. I can;t seem to find anything in the HOWTO to update the comps.xml file, but that information should be located in the yum mail list archives.. As I think Seth has discussed how he does the Duke repos before. -n.. having a really bad typing day. -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhruby@xxxxxxx> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support metaphysically wrinkle-free -------------------------------------------
