I've been playing with autorpm and it looks like it will do what I want
which is exactly what you are trying to do. If you set it up to do so
it will even udate the packages. I use it to get all the updates and
bring them down to a server and move the ones I want to update to a
different folder and viola all 5 linux machines on the network are
updated the next morning when I come in.
The "client" machines are set to look into the update directory. One
thing I have not figured out is to not "update" a package that is not
installed. It may be there but I got the base part working and have not
had a chance to get back to it to dig in. Seems like -freshen should be
used rather than -update but it does not seem to be the case. Perhaps a
newer version does/will I don't know.
Bret
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 05:26:59PM -0500, Ward William E PHDN wrote:
> > Ok, I've started using RPMFind.... but I get a strange error, or
> > perhaps I'm just not doing it right.
> >
> > I did the following command:
> >
> > rpm -q -a | awk '{ printf("%s ",$1)}' | xargs rpmfind --upgrade -v
> >
> > and I get a stream of error messages:
> >
> > Get http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/resources/basesystem-6.0-4.rdf
> > Error fetching basesystem-6.0-4 metadata
> > Get http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/resources/basesystem-6.0.rdf
> > Error fetching basesystem-6.0 metadata
> > Get http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/resources/basesystem.rdf
> > Resource basesystem-6.0-4 : no need to upgrade
> >
> > And then I get this (basically) for all or nearly all of the
> > packages I have installed. Ok, I know I'm asking for it to give me
> > all the packages I have: I want to know what has been updated out
> > there. However, it takes HOURS to run (and this is off of a FE
> > channel that connects to a T3... FE is the slowest link). I also
> > didn't see any packages come down for my perusal. I've RTFWPDocs,
> > and it's clear as mud, if I'm not doing what I think I'm doing...
> > can somebody give me an idea what I'm doing wrong? System is 6.1
> > (base) that upgraded an old 5.2 installation with SOME upgrades,
> > RPMFind is the latest version.
>
> This is not a direct answer to what you are doing here (would be slick
> if it worked!), but is what I do to stay up to date. Subscribe to
> redhat-watch and rehat-announce lists. The first gives all official
> updates as they are released, the latter is contrib type stuff. Then
> cut-paste URLs into xterm and use wget to d/l. Low tech.
>
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