Steve,
'up2date' has a download only option (-d/--download); you could use that
after some fashion (might take a little hacking) to routinely snag all
upgrades post-ISO, and build your own apt repository. Take a look at
repo-janitor (over on the FreshRPMS list), maybe it'll give you some ideas.
Start with something like:
/usr/sbin/up2date --nox --showall > /tmp/allrpms.txt
sed [magic sed switches to remove version] < /tmp/allrpms.txt >
/tmp/all.txt
for $line in /tmp/all.txt; do
/usr/sbin/up2date --nox -d --tmpdir=/path/to/apt/repo --get $line
done
/commands/to/make/apt/repo
(complete psuedo code, not a bit of it tested :) )
-te
Steve Meyers wrote:
> I work for a small company, and we're running CentOS on our servers. We
> are looking to possibly move our most critical servers to RHEL. We
> currently use apt to deploy software upgrades to our servers. I have a
> question about RHEL subscriptions that they don't seem to be able to
> answer for me. If you have an RHEL subscription, do you have access to
> manually download the RPMs? We would prefer to deploy upgrades using
> apt instead of up2date, for consistency, but we need to know whether we
> can even do that on RHEL.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve Meyers
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