Help! -- How to use YUM to install&update my own packages and downloaded packages at the same time??

[david walcroft]

Guolin Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
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>   I got a problem of how to use yum to install& update my own packages
> and downloaded packages at the same time...
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>  The story is: I rolled some my own packages which are not installed by
> default, so they are new to all my Fedora clients; at the same time, I
> also have some updated packages downloaded directly from Internet.  I
> want my Linux clients to install my own packages like myShit and also to
> update the downloaded new version packages like httpd. I put all the two
> categories of packages into a directory, then set /etc/yum.conf 's
> [updates-released] section points to it. The [base] section is
> un-changed.
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>  Then if I run "yum update", it will only update the downloaded
> new-versioned packages like httpd, while my own-rolled packages like
> myShit are not installed. Then if I try to run "yum -install '*' ", it
> will install all packages from both [base] and [updates-released]
> sections, there are thousands packages unneeded!  
> 
>  
> 
>>From the manual of yum, it says that the "install" subcommand can be
> used to install "groups" of packages, then How to define group(s)
> besides of shell glob which is not appropriate for my case? Can we
> define and ask yum to install only from [updates-released] channel??
> 
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> Another problem is: Is there a way to ask yum to keep quiet (not
> reporting any lines on screen) when there are no transactions to take?
> Since I will put yum commands in crontab, but I don't like to receive
> thousands of emails from my thousands of Fedora clients daily.
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>  Anyone has any good hints or suggestions??  Thanks.
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>  --Guolin Cheng
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> 
Guolin,
        I think this is correct.
  1/  man yum-arch
  2/ In your [Packages dir] do # yum-arch .
  3/ In /etc/yum.conf add [Packages dir]to "my-local" in the format:
     "baseurl=file:///home/david/rpm/upgrade"
It should add headers/header.info to /var/cache/yum/'Packages'

    HTH   david