Re: [OS:N:] Service Pack CDs

[Johnathan Kupferer <johnathan gnuthought com>]

Is there a way to do this sort of thing through the RedHat Network?

Have you considered downloading the rpms to a centralized server?  You 
could have a daemon or cron jobs on the clients to detect when new rpms 
show up and install them automatically.  Another option would be, if all 
machines have the same configuration, you could run "up2date --download" 
on one machine and copy the rpms from /var/spool/up2date/ to use on all 
of them.

Going the route of the CD, I don't see why it would be a problem to 
write a program that you could toss on a cd along with the rpm updates 
so it would be as simple as inserting the cd and typing "mount 
/mnt/cdrom/; sh /mnt/cdrom/update_system".

Does anyone know of a tool to do either of these things.  If not, I 
suppose I should write one.

- Johnathan


Heath Henderson wrote:

> A friend of mine at work here at the k-12 learning land we like to call
> school, just suggested something I found interesting.
>
> RedHat should offer Service Pack CDs, so it isn't as difficult to update
> machines running say 6.2 to current rpm builds.
>
> He said this I believe, because he is posted out in one of our buildings
> with a 56 k dialup and is working on updating our linux machines in that
> building.  
>
> Don't know who this would hurt, but As far as some of our schools, we would
> love some cds like that.  Would even buy it,  although the iso is good to
> download as well from our office and send it out to the building.
>
>
> Thanks