[Yum] complete install of system using yum?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Aug 16 06:28:19 UTC 2003


> Since I'm sure it'll turn out to be more than just this one file
> (actually, its 2-3 already), I ended up writing a service that runs
> periodically on all these machines that makes secure (https) requests
> back to a central server (you can use a cacert to verify you are talking
> to your server) for a list of updated configuration files, then
> downloads and installs them. The server generates a custom XML file for
> each node with information about the updates for that particular node,
> including where to download the file, what permissions/ownership it
> should have, and what commands to run pre/post install. I have one RPM
> that I can install on all these machines to keep their config files up
> to date.

I'd like to hear more about this too.

-sv





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