On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Chris Geddings wrote: > Assuming that you already have the rpms in one place, you can use > yum-arch to build the header information. Assuming that if the rpm gets > updated, you want to just push it out, if you have your yum.conf > pointing to that repo, and have yum running out of cron, anytime there > is an updated rpm, the clients will update as updates are available. > > So, > * Run yum-arch for the location of your RPM's. > * Install yum on your clients. > * Set up the cron job to run at the desired frequency. > * Set the yum.conf on the clients to point at your mounted repository. > * As new RPM's get installed, re-run yum-arch. > > --Chris As part of your up2date cron job, do the yum-arch then ssh to the client boxes and run yum -y update. Course this implies you have complete trust in RedHat's QA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.rossberry.com
