Tigris's Current - Up2date server

[Johan Booysen]

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm reasonably familiar with yum, and know how to build "local" yum
repositories (e.g. using createrepo), but I have no idea how you set up
yum itself to download Red Hat updates for EL3.  Unless you mean
something like configuring one machine to update and keep all rpm
packages, and then running createrepo on the directory where the rpm
packages live (e.g. /var/spool/up2date), or maybe rather create and use
another directory and synch that with /var/spool/up2date, to use that as
a yum repository.

Any chance you could give me a bit of information on how you implemented
this?  I'd appreciate that very much.

Ideally I want to set up a system whereby I don't necessarily have to
make changes to the machines that need to be updated, i.e. not have to
install yum on them all.  This is why I was looking at Current, since it
seems like you only need to make minor changes to up2date on each
machine to get it to work.

I've also found DAG's mrepo, which may be an option, and which I'll be
testing soon.

The reasons we want to do this is (a) to save bandwidth, and (b) to
avoid having to go to the expense of implementing a Red Hat Network
Satellite solution.

Regards,

Johan

-----Original Message-----
From: Bliss, Aaron [mailto:ABliss at preferredcare.org] 
Sent: 04 June 2007 13:06
To: Johan Booysen; redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: Tigris's Current - Up2date server

Johan,
Yum works very well for this sort of thing...we use yum in combination
with some in house written scripts to pull down redhat updates and build
test and production repositories...you will of course still need to
license all of your redhat machines as if you were updating them from
rhn... 

Aaron

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 7:28 AM
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: Tigris's Current - Up2date server

Hi,
 
do any of you use, or have used in the past, Tigris's open source
up2date server called "Current" (http://current.tigris.org
<http://current.tigris.org> )?
 
I'm looking for a way to implement an internal server that synchronises
rpm packages with RHN, download the packages, and then serve as a local
source  (for RHEL3 servers)  so that I can update those other internal
servers by pointing them at the internal repository.
 
Current seems to be able to do this.
 
Or does anyone have experience of any possible alternatives that I can
look into?
 
Thanks very much.
 
Johan
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