Team,
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(channels, scheduling remote updates, etc) but merely the ability to see your list of systems and determine which are out of date with XXX packages.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. ;)
Ideas? Thx, -te
Hi Troy
A system like that is definitely custom built and I don't believe there's a system available anywhere off the shelf. As long as you have a good skiplist, you can always run yum or any of the updaters that you may use on a cron nightly.. Just a thought.
Regards CM
-----Original Message----- From: centos-admin@caosity.org [mailto:centos-admin@caosity.org] On Behalf Of Troy Engel Sent: 15 September 2004 00:08 To: CentOS Users Subject: [Centos] RHN-like system for CentOS?
Team,
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(channels, scheduling remote updates, etc) but merely the ability to see your list of systems and determine which are out of date with XXX packages.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. ;)
Ideas? Thx, -te
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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(channels, scheduling remote updates, etc) but merely the ability to see your list of systems and determine which are out of date with XXX packages.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.
-- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
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.
Two suggestions: 1. read yum-devel list - panu is working on a repoquery tool for the command line that could get information from a new metadata repository from the command line.
2. I would have much interest in helping develop an xml-rpc interfaced tool that uses the yum python module to retrieve lists of: - package updates/changes etc - local rpmdb status information - changed files (rpm -Va equivalence) - arbitrary query information.
Let's take this over to the rpm-metadata list or the yum-devel list and see if we can get some new tools knocked out.
Thanks -sv
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Troy Engel