On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 17:49 -0400, Prayther, Aaron wrote: > I'm new to YUM but was looking for a way to manage a number of systems, > more or less centrally. The key was that I wanted to not only to > "update" but "push" and... I think... this is going to work for me. > > Is this an appropriate way to achieve a centrally managed update and > push? > > #!/bin/sh > > if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then > /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y -c http://ljads2/rhel4/yum.conf > update yum > /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y -c http://ljads2/rhel4/yum.conf > update > /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y -c http://ljads2/rhel4/yum- > push.conf install > fi Sorry for the long delay w/o a response. Yah - you can do the above to get 'push' capability in some ways. to do it better we're going to need to talk about xmlrpc and some programming . :) -sv
