[CLUE-Tech] Updating RH9

[Joe Daily]

If I remember right, from when i did some scripts for that pupose
if you 

1. up2date -du this puts the updated rpms in /var/spool/up2date and 
2. cp them to the selected machines 
3. use up2date --install on each machine

now this will generate some network traffic but only to sync the package
headers with the redhat network so you can keep track of machines.

If you are just trying to use a demo account you will have to set up a
while loop in bach to rpm -Uvh the dwonloaded files.

may the source bet with you...

joe

if you are trying to just use a demo account.
n Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:28, Michael Robbert wrote:
> I guess this would depend on how you're getting your updates. If you're 
> manually going to a site and downloading them this wouldn't be a 
> problem. Of course I just cringe at grabbing and applying all of my 
> updates manually. If you're using the Red Hat Network with up2date I'm 
> pretty sure that there is a way to save downloaded updates, but I 
> haven't used that in so long I wouldn't know where to look for that. If 
> you go that route you must also remember that the one system you run 
> up2date on will only grab updates for packages that are installed on it. 
> If your other systems have a different set of packages they won't get 
> the updates. The other problem with that is you'll only be able to use 
> up2date on the one system and you'll still need to manually update the 
> other systems unless you want to write your own scripts to push or pull 
> the local updates.
> Since I have a nice fat and free connection(at work at least) I just use 
> rsync to keep a full mirror of one of the download sites. I then use the 
> scripts found at freshrpms.net to create an apt repository out of the 
> mirror and I use apt4rpm to update each of my systems.
> 
> acamp wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I want to update 1 RH9 system, and then have local files
> > to build an update CD for other systems, or better yet,
> > be able to push update files across my local network.
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to save the downloaded updates, and manually
> > install them on another system?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Andrew Campagnola
> > acamp at linuxonsite.com
> > 
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