RH 9 EOL Updates ISOs

[Michael Weiner]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 15:34 +0100, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> I make use of a handy repostory maintenance script (rh_buildtree
> written by Peter Benie who works in a different department here),
> which given a set of directories full of rpms constructs/maintains a
> directory which contains the latest version of all those packages
> which pass a signature-check (as hard-links to whichever source they
> were from -- original shipped version, updates, local-packages etc).
> 
> [ We use it to re-build install trees overnight so that a fresh
> install always goes straight to having the latest versions available
> from the tree (which saves having insecure versions until patched and
> also is much quicker).
> 
> We also use a script (rpmalert) which checks what versions are
> out-of-date on a machine and another (rpm-update) which applies the
> updates we have flagged as ok, but I suppose you may have yum/up2date
> for that function anyway. ]
> 
> I'm still using this older repository maintenance script for my redhat
> trees (which takes ~15 minutes to run and (I think) results in an
> extra copy of some of the packages on disk).
> 
> As part of my experiments with Suse9 I tried Peter's new repository
> maintenance script (rpmstream) which usually runs in seconds (since it
> keeps more cache info around).
> 
> If you just want the latest versions of update packages that could
> probably be done easily enough.
> 

and are ANY of these scripts available publically, or anything CLOSE?

Thanks in advance.
Michael Weiner
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