RPM consistency across systems

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 07:48, Allen Winter wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I have two identical HP notebook machines (mine and my wife's) that I just finished installing
> fresh, new, FC2 loads.  I checked the list of RPMs and both machines have the identical
> packages installed -- and I want to keep it that way.  So, just in case we have to use
> each others machines we should have all the exact same packages (and versions) installed.
> 
> Any advice on how to accomplish this goal?
> I guess on my server machine I could keep a "master RPM list" and then have a cron
> run on each machine against that list.  But I don't want to maintain that list by hand.
> 
> Ideas and advice appreciated.
> Regards,
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I would think that if both systems had the same sources / sources.list
for their up2date-yum/apt that it they would hold together. Otherwise, I
know up2date can be configured to 'retain' the rpm's it downloads and
installs and then you can use that to update the other. I would suppose
that yum/apt can probably do the same.

Craig