Re: How do Errata relate to Updates?

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Don Hoover wrote:

> Ok, I am trying to build my kickstart environment, and
> am a little confused about Errata.
> 
> I have been watching the errata and getting emails
> etc. for sometime now and I have noticed that they do
> not reference a particular release such as RHEL4U2,
> they only say RHEL4, RHEL3 etc.
> 
> So I am tring to figure out, how should I plan on
> using errata to keep current?
> 
> Do errata get rolled into the next update version? 
> For instance, will current errata get rolled into
> RHEL4U5?  I picked a few erratas, and followed their
> trail via the notices and bugzillas's but they never
> mention if they get rolled into an update or not.
> 
> Should I have all my systems apply all the errata from
> a seperate yum directory or should I put the errata
> into my distro distro directories (eg put it into
> RHEL4U2, and RHEL4U3 kickstart directories) and then
> redo the comps.xml for those kickstart directories?
> 
> Anyone have any insight?

You might want to look at Yam for automatically setting up an environment 
that provides HTTP access to your CDs/RPMs, synchronizes updates from 
several sources (custom repo, 3rd party, RHN) and generates repositories.

Yam is available from:

	http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/

Kind regards,
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