Jon,
Well that is what I thought. I ran into a big problem after running "yum -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/var/www/htdocs/yum update" on the management server then performing a yum update on of my test clients. Both of the test clients wouldn't complete the start process. They would hang on the startup of various and different services.
I so far have been unable to get either of the systems to boot (even in single user) so I don't have much to go on. I did notice that the update did install a new kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 from 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. I cannot boot from either kernel.
--Thanks, Chris
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From: "Stanley, Jon" <Jon.Stanley@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> It makes no difference if the repo has files that aren't on your clients -
> they're not going to get them just by doing a 'yum update'
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> Of course, they could get them with, 'yum install', but that's the point.
> You could also use mrepo to do this.
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> From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:56 AM
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> Subject: How to update a RHEL5 Satellite Server repo
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>
> I have created an install server/yum update server one a centralized RHEL! 5
& gt; Server (5.1, kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13)
>
> I am using apache2 on the server and http on the clients for both installing and
> updating.
>
> This centralized install/update servers runs other aplications such as Nagios.
> Because of this is has many optional packages installed.
>
> I populated my update repository by performing a new build on a client server
> then ran "yum -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/var/www/htdocs/yum update". I
> then transerred the downloaded packages to the management server into
> /var/www/htdocs/yum. Lastly I ran "createrepo ." to create the repository. On
> the clients I added a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/companyx.repo
>
> [rhel-companyx]
> name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - i386
> baseurl=http://server1.companyx.com/yum
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-company
>!
&g t; I ran yum update on the client server and it performed perfectly.
>
> I reliazed at that point I didn't have a method of keeping the yum update repo
> up to date. If I run yum -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/var/www/htdocs/yum
> update on the mangement server the repo will be populated with packages not
> installed on any of my clients. Maybe I need to create a repo for each client
> and somehow replicate the client RPM databases to the management server. Even if
> I do replicated the rpm db to the managment server I don't see the oprion
> --dbpath in yum that rpm has so I don't know how to utilized the client rpmdb.
>
> I am stuck and have to have this project done in a couple of days. I am under
> pressure !
>
> Oh, and purchasing the RedHat Satellite Server product from RedHat is not an
> option for me.
>
> Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.......! ..
>
> - --Thanks, Chris
>
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