[rhn-users] Package installer

[Trice, Jim]

Dennis,
   What I do is set up my own yum repository. I set up apache on one linux
box. Copy all the rpm files from the latest base distribution into the "base"
directory and copy any update rpm files into the update directory. Run
"createrepo ./" from http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/generate/ in
each of the directories to generate the metadata. Install yum on each of the
linux clients and point the /etc/yum.conf to my apache server. I can either
run "yum update" periodically or manually. (note the only trick to compiling
yum was to "make DESTDIR=/") This gives me the flexibility I need. I can
create more than one repo if I want to test things on development boxes
before putting into production or I can leave out rpms that I know cause
trouble. For example, the latest apache update caused problems for my tomcat
servers so I just leave the httpd update rpm out of my repo.
    Download yum sources from
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.2/.
Jim Trice 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Trice Dennis D
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:55 PM
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: [rhn-users] Package installer
> 
> Does Redhat offer a package that allows me to push patches to other
> servers/workstation in my environment?
> 
> I thought up2date could handle it but it looks like up2date only does
> pulls.  Where I have to log into each server/workstation and run up2date
> to pull the patches.
> 
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