Updates

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 24Apr2006 17:36, bearwoods at adelphia.net <bearwoods at adelphia.net> wrote:
> | I am the admin on a closed system where I teach.  How can I update AS ver 4 if I can't get to the net?  Any help will be appriciated.
> 
> One approach, if you have access to another AS4 system, is to download
> the updates to the other server (run "up2date -d") and copy those files
> (you will need to burn them to a CDROM or something of course). They
> are stored in /var/spool/up2date. Then you can install with "rpm -Fvh
> *.rpm".

Or you could use and internal repository of updates and extra packages 
using Yam. Yam allows to download RHN packages and keep repositoritories 
in sync with upstream. For more information about Yam, see:

	http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/

I'm looking for more feedback from users, both about the 
installation/configuration as well as difficulties using it.


PS However I do not advise to enable extra repositories in production 
as-is, but if you need special packages that do not come from your vendor 
the sensible thing to do is make your own repository and move these 
packages there. That way you have better control over what is 
additionally installed on your systems (on which you have no support) and 
you can more easily test those packages before upgrading them on 
production machines.

It's not because it's easy to upgrade stuff, that it is wise to do so :)

Kind regards,
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