Re: rpm deployment

[Vincent <pros-n-cons () bak rr com>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 01:11:55 -0800
zidan <zidan00 () fastmail fm> wrote:

> hello,
>
> I have redhat machines distributed in various sites.
> I wish to update these machines automatically, however I don't want to
> open these boxes internet access to rhn up2date.
>
> is there a solution to deploy these packages to all boxes ?

What's wrong with '/sbin/up2date --update' ?
As someone already mentioned Apt-get is a popular solution although starting
on RedHats next release they'll have an application called yum 
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ . Which is basically apt made for RPM's 
not just a 'hack'. It's already availible for Redhat 7.3, 8 or 9 and
has an option to run from init to check nightly updates which seems
to fit your problem.

> thank you,
> -Z
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