[Yum] Maintaining yum repositories

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 13:08, Nielsen, Steve wrote:
> I am using rsync now but when I want to merge the updates I get from
> rsync into my distro area (for kickstart installs) that is where it
> becomes a problem. Basically that is what I am asking is what tools do
> people use to merge updated RPMs into the distribution area.
> 


http://www.dulug.duke.edu/treetools/

those should work for merges.

the trouble with merging is you need to do a check on the repository 
afterwards to make sure it has dependency closure for itself.

but the add-rpm42 tool in the above url is what I use for merging.

-sv