Automating Red Hat updates (was Re: A call for recomendations and helpful some advice)

[Bill Mullen]

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 21:14, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 20:54, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> > So, don't use up2date.  If you have more than one system, it's
> > certainly worth your bandwidth to simply mirror the Red Hat updates
> > tree.  Make the result an NFS export, and write a simple shell script
> > to update your systems.  If you don't want to get complicated, this
> > script can be as simple as 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' (in the appropriate
> > directory, of course).  
> 
> There's an assumption being made in this suggestion however.  That is
> that I can safely nfs export to the systems in question.  Unfortunately
> they are kind of scattered across the net, and having a system with an
> open portmap and nfs server doesn't thrill me.  

Not to beat a dead horse here, but Mandrake's urpmi tool lets you define
http and ftp sources as well as local/CD/nfs ones, which makes getting
updates off a mirror on the LAN (or even installing from one, for that
matter, which I've done about ten times) one *heck* of a lot simpler. ;)

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