[TriLUG] updating multiple systems at once w/ yum

Glen Ford gford at idiom.com
Fri Feb 6 10:50:38 EST 2004


Magnus Hedemark wrote:

>On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
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>>Could anyone offer any links and/or instructions to help me set 
>>something up ... or point me in a certain direction?
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>* Get an http or ftp daemon working on one of your machines.
>* Set up an rsync job to download the available RPM's for your machines on 
>  a regular basis.
>* At the tail end of that job, run "yum-arch /path/to/rpms"
>* Make sure your /path/to/rpms is accessible via http or ftp
>* Add the relevant URLs to your /etc/yum.conf on all client machines.
>* "chckconfig yum on && service yum start" on your yum client machines.
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>That is the most basic way to get auto updates going on all your machines.
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>If you want to get into pseudo-pushing packages out, you want to Google 
>the yum mailing list archives to figure out how to make a yumgroups.xml 
>(easy) and probably update your daily cron job to do something like "yum 
>groupinstall mybundle".  It's easier than you think.
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wouldn't it be nice if something like 'yum' would just magically upgrade 
2.4 based servers to 2.6.2 servers?
Due to 2.4 security issue, I have been tasked with plan to upgrade from 
2.4 kernels to 2.6. So far I have found the migration path to be less 
than optimal

/glen


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Glen Ford
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