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Never tried your method (though that would be nice, too) but
what about using up2date and telling it to download files only, ie: not install
them? The -d flag is for download, and -f to force it, even if you may
already have the RPM installed. I've run it this way manually a few times
without problems.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:18
AM
Subject: How to get RPMs without
up2date?
I have a RHN account and a
subscription to the RHEL3ES channel. I want to download the available
update RPMs via wget on a nightly basis (not using up2date).
My
internal R&D machines (various flavors of Linux) are firewalled from
external (internet) access. I have a separate machine that lives on edge
of my network that scans for new RPMs on several different sites. It
downloads them and makes them available internally via an NFS
mount.
So, since I have an RHN account name and password that can be
used for authentication purposes I should be able to use wget to retrieve the
RPMs for the channels I am subscribed to under HTTPS.
The goal is to be
able to do this automatically (via cron) at night from a server which is not
the target machine for the update RPMs. Something like
this:
wget -c -N https://user:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/download/rhn/private/rhel3-rhdb/i386/RPMS/*.rpm
Can
we get this to work? I can always write a perl/python/php script
spider/robot to traverse the RHN web site and do this work, but I was
hoping for a simple, community friendly, mechanism. What say
you?
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