[TriLUG] Re: up2date

[Janyne Kizer]

Have you tried Current?  We have been working on keeping one server
updated (by hand at this point) and updating the others from ther with
Current.

http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current/

Steve Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure how many of you run RedHat's up2date, but are there any
> > alternate servers to pull the updates from (while still using up2date)?
> > I've been trying to update a fresh 7.2 install for over 2 hours now,
> > getting about 20-25k/sec (from RedHat) which is pretty bad considering I
> > have a 100Mb pipe.
> >
> > Jeff
> 
> Dear Jeff an other TriLUGgers,
> 
> Noticed the posting about up2date and thought I would add
> my $.02 worth... personally I prefer to put the new rpms
> on at my own discretion (using "rpm -Fvh" or "rpm -ivh")
> so I control exactly which rpms go on there, and when.
> However it was a continual drag to have to wait a LOOOONG
> time to download the RPMs from the Red Hat site.  My
> solution was a home grown alternative to up2date. I wrote
> a simple script which I run as a cron job prior to each
> work day, with the following cron tab entry:
> 
> 01 22 * * sun,mon,tue,wed,thu /home/thorpe/bin/getLatestRPMs
> 
> For me, the nice parts about this script are:
> 
> 1. Since it uses wget's --timestamping option, the rpms
>    copied to my local disk have the same timestamp as
>    they do on the RedHat ftp site... so I can do "ls -alt"
>    to see them sorted in reverse date order
> 
> 2. It only grabs NEW rpms that show up on the site, as
>    long as I keep the local directory in place with any
>    already downloaded rpms.  Thus it is *much* faster than
>    just doing a "wget *" (provided its run on a regular
>    basis)
> 
> 3. Since its automated by a cron job, I never think about
>    it but just get an email every morning telling me if
>    I might have some newly available rpms to consider
>    upgrading to.  If so, it gives me the command I need to
>    run to do the upgrade.  I can just copy/paste the
>    command from the email message to a shell, and perform
>    the upgrade(s).  (However if there are new kernel RPMs
>    you'd probably want to do them differently)
> 
> 4. In a nutshell, I am happy because I control which rpms
>    are upgraded, and when, but the script makes it so easy
>    that I am almost never more than 1 business day out of
>    date.  All with maybe 2-30 seconds per day of effort on
>    my part.
> 
> FWIW I offer my getLatestRPMs script to anyone who is
> interested.  Enjoy!
> 
> Steve Thorpe
> steve_thorpe at acm.org
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/tcsh -f
> #
> #    File: getLatestRPMs
> # Purpose: updates ./updates.redhat.com/$RELEASE/en/os/i386/ with
> #          latest RPMs from RedHat, mailing results to $USER
> #
> setenv RELEASE 7.2
> setenv BASEDIR /scratch/$USER/errata
> setenv SUBDIR  updates.redhat.com/$RELEASE/en/os/i386
> setenv TMPFILE /tmp/getLatestRPMs.out
> umask 77
> mkdir -p $BASEDIR
> cd $BASEDIR
> rm -rf $TMPFILE                                              >& /dev/null
> wget ftp://$SUBDIR -r -nv --timestamping                     >& $TMPFILE
> echo " "                                                     >> $TMPFILE
> echo "--------------------------------------------"          >> $TMPFILE
> echo "NOTE: Any RPMs listed here are corrupted:   "          >> $TMPFILE
> echo "--------------------------------------------"          >> $TMPFILE
> rpm -K --nogpg $BASEDIR/$SUBDIR/*.rpm | /bin/grep -v " OK"   >> $TMPFILE
> echo " "                                                     >> $TMPFILE
> echo "--------------------------------------------"          >> $TMPFILE
> echo "To freshen all of the RPMs from this release:"         >> $TMPFILE
> echo "--------------------------------------------"          >> $TMPFILE
> echo "cd $BASEDIR/$SUBDIR; rpm -Fvh *.rpm"                   >> $TMPFILE
> echo " "                                                     >> $TMPFILE
> echo "BUT DO NOT FORGET TO TREAT KERNEL UPGRADES WITH CARE!" >> $TMPFILE
> Mail -s "getLatestRPMs `grep Downloaded $TMPFILE`" $USER     <  $TMPFILE
> rm -rf $TMPFILE                                              >& /dev/null
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
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-- 
Janyne Kizer
CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
Systems Programmer Administrator I
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension and Administrative Technology Services