Steve,
'up2date' has a download only option (-d/--download); you could use that after some fashion (might take a little hacking) to routinely snag all upgrades post-ISO, and build your own apt repository. Take a look at repo-janitor (over on the FreshRPMS list), maybe it'll give you some ideas.
Start with something like: /usr/sbin/up2date --nox --showall > /tmp/allrpms.txt sed [magic sed switches to remove version] < /tmp/allrpms.txt > /tmp/all.txt for $line in /tmp/all.txt; do /usr/sbin/up2date --nox -d --tmpdir=/path/to/apt/repo --get $line done /commands/to/make/apt/repo
(complete psuedo code, not a bit of it tested :) )
-te
Steve Meyers wrote:
I work for a small company, and we're running CentOS on our servers. We are looking to possibly move our most critical servers to RHEL. We currently use apt to deploy software upgrades to our servers. I have a question about RHEL subscriptions that they don't seem to be able to answer for me. If you have an RHEL subscription, do you have access to manually download the RPMs? We would prefer to deploy upgrades using apt instead of up2date, for consistency, but we need to know whether we can even do that on RHEL.
Thanks!
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