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 ability to see your list of systems and determine which are out of date with 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 at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]