[Yum] Red Hat Enterprise

Jim Wildman jim at rossberry.com
Wed Feb 25 22:05:36 UTC 2004


On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Chris Geddings wrote:

> Assuming that you already have the rpms in one place, you can use
> yum-arch to build the header information.  Assuming that if the rpm gets
> updated, you want to just push it out, if you have your yum.conf
> pointing to that repo, and have yum running out of cron, anytime there
> is an updated rpm, the clients will update as updates are available.
> 
> So,
> * Run yum-arch for the location of your RPM's.
> * Install yum on your clients.
> * Set up the cron job to run at the desired frequency.
> * Set the yum.conf on the clients to point at your mounted repository.
> * As new RPM's get installed, re-run yum-arch.
> 
> --Chris

As part of your up2date cron job, do the yum-arch then ssh to the client
boxes and run yum -y update.  Course this implies you have complete
trust in RedHat's QA.

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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim at rossberry.com
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