On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Troy Engel wrote:
Is anyone aware of a Red Hat Network alike system of server package update status that could be adapted for CentOS3? I'm not interested in the complete management aspect (channels, scheduling remote updates, etc) but merely the ability to see your list of systems and determine which are out of date with XXX packages. If you happen to manage a large-ish number of RHES3 systems, you know what a boon this is. ;)
Hi Troy,
I'd be very interested in a simple tool that can do this against the new repository metadata. I think it could be part of a tool-set for packagers and sysadmins. There are some other basic tools that packagers and sysadmins are currently lacking, like something to clean up .rpmnew/.rpmsave mess, to backup a system based on what's different from the rpmdb, a tool to reinstall a system that has been damaged or rooted, etc...
I've written some of these things for myself in Bash, but like to reimplement and improve them using python and the python-rpm bindings.
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