[PLUG] Automating updates

[Matt King]

I think it's a great idea to keep your system up to date...but what if an
RPM breaks something critical in your system and you didn't know it until
it's already installed?  One bad thing about automated updates without
user intervention.
As for your question why don't you do an rsync, and do the -F option that
only upgrades RPMs earlier than the version you're trying to install...

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Matt King
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Scott VanHoosen busted out the keyboard and typed:
> We have a few Red Hat servers at work, and I'd like to automate their
> updates, but I have one link in the chain that I'm stuck at.
>
> I'd like to have one server automatically download any new RPMs from
> somewhere, probably an ftp server, dump them into a directory along with
> all my other RPMs, then do an "rpm -f *.rpm" to freshen any
> packages on the system. I'll probably share the directory using NFS so
> the other Red Hat servers can update too.
>
> The problem I'm stuck at: what would be the best way to automatically
> download only new packages and/or packages I don't already have in my
> RPM directory?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Scott
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