Re: RH 9 EOL Updates ISOs

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 22:39, Michael Weiner wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 15:34 +0100, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> > I make use of a handy repostory maintenance script (rh_buildtree
> > written by Peter Benie who works in a different department here),
> > which given a set of directories full of rpms constructs/maintains a
> > directory which contains the latest version of all those packages
> > which pass a signature-check (as hard-links to whichever source they
> > were from -- original shipped version, updates, local-packages etc).
> > 
> > [ We use it to re-build install trees overnight so that a fresh
> > install always goes straight to having the latest versions available
> > from the tree (which saves having insecure versions until patched and
> > also is much quicker).
> > 
> > We also use a script (rpmalert) which checks what versions are
> > out-of-date on a machine and another (rpm-update) which applies the
> > updates we have flagged as ok, but I suppose you may have yum/up2date
> > for that function anyway. ]
> > 
> > I'm still using this older repository maintenance script for my redhat
> > trees (which takes ~15 minutes to run and (I think) results in an
> > extra copy of some of the packages on disk).
> > 
> > As part of my experiments with Suse9 I tried Peter's new repository
> > maintenance script (rpmstream) which usually runs in seconds (since it
> > keeps more cache info around).
> > 
> > If you just want the latest versions of update packages that could
> > probably be done easily enough.
> > 
> 
> and are ANY of these scripts available publically, or anything CLOSE?
> 

I would be interested in these scripts too

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