Hi Aaron, Thanks for your reply. I'm reasonably familiar with yum, and know how to build "local" yum repositories (e.g. using createrepo), but I have no idea how you set up yum itself to download Red Hat updates for EL3. Unless you mean something like configuring one machine to update and keep all rpm packages, and then running createrepo on the directory where the rpm packages live (e.g. /var/spool/up2date), or maybe rather create and use another directory and synch that with /var/spool/up2date, to use that as a yum repository. Any chance you could give me a bit of information on how you implemented this? I'd appreciate that very much. Ideally I want to set up a system whereby I don't necessarily have to make changes to the machines that need to be updated, i.e. not have to install yum on them all. This is why I was looking at Current, since it seems like you only need to make minor changes to up2date on each machine to get it to work. I've also found DAG's mrepo, which may be an option, and which I'll be testing soon. The reasons we want to do this is (a) to save bandwidth, and (b) to avoid having to go to the expense of implementing a Red Hat Network Satellite solution. Regards, Johan -----Original Message----- From: Bliss, Aaron [mailto:ABliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 04 June 2007 13:06 To: Johan Booysen; redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Tigris's Current - Up2date server Johan, Yum works very well for this sort of thing...we use yum in combination with some in house written scripts to pull down redhat updates and build test and production repositories...you will of course still need to license all of your redhat machines as if you were updating them from rhn... Aaron -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 7:28 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Tigris's Current - Up2date server Hi, do any of you use, or have used in the past, Tigris's open source up2date server called "Current" (http://current.tigris.org <http://current.tigris.org> )? I'm looking for a way to implement an internal server that synchronises rpm packages with RHN, download the packages, and then serve as a local source (for RHEL3 servers) so that I can update those other internal servers by pointing them at the internal repository. Current seems to be able to do this. Or does anyone have experience of any possible alternatives that I can look into? Thanks very much. Johan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this electronic message is intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above and may contain privileged or confidential information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and destroy the copies you received. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
