CentOS docs - Jun 2009 - Automated RPMForge Repository Installation Script for Tips & Tricks section

Hello.

With the help of the community I finished polishing the translation of
my PHP script to Bash version
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=20222&forum=38

It has now autodetection of architecture and CentOS version and handles errors.

I have published an article under my homepage here:
http://wiki.centos.org/VladislavRastrusny/AutoRPMForgeRepo

Since no automated RPM to install RPMForge repo was added to native
CentOS repositories, I think my article can be included to Tips &
Tricks section. And, probably, linked from here:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge.
Manually performing all changes from here is a hard job ;)

Please tell me, what should I improve in this article if anything?

Best regards,
Vladislav "FractalizeR" Rastrusny

On 11/06/2009, Vladislav Rastrusny <FractalizeR at yandex.ru> wrote:
>  With the help of the community I finished polishing the translation of
>  my PHP script to Bash version
> 
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=20222&forum=38
>  Please tell me, what should I improve in this article if anything?
My latest post to your forum thread flags an adjustment to the sed
command lines . . . :-)

Alan.

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:01, Vladislav Rastrusny<FractalizeR at
yandex.ru> wrote:
> I have published an article under my homepage here:
> http://wiki.centos.org/VladislavRastrusny/AutoRPMForgeRepo
Sorry, but how is that supposed to be easier than this?
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B2

Cheers,
Filipe

Am Donnerstag, den 11.06.2009, 16:01 +0200 schrieb Vladislav
Rastrusny:
> Hello.
>
> With the help of the community I finished polishing the translation of
> my PHP script to Bash version
>
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=20222&forum=38
>
> It has now autodetection of architecture and CentOS version and handles
errors.
>
> I have published an article under my homepage here:
> http://wiki.centos.org/VladislavRastrusny/AutoRPMForgeRepo
>
> Since no automated RPM to install RPMForge repo was added to native
> CentOS repositories, I think my article can be included to Tips &
> Tricks section. And, probably, linked from here:
> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge.
> Manually performing all changes from here is a hard job ;)
>
> Please tell me, what should I improve in this article if anything?
>
> Best regards,
> Vladislav "FractalizeR" Rastrusny
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It would be much nicer if you could replace the "command ; if [ $? !0 ]
then echo ...; exit 1; with a sub. So you could do
  command || _myexit "Comment"

You can als run all sed statements in a single sed call.

  sed -i -e 'replace1' -e 'replace2' -e 'replace3'
<file>

If you want to massdeploy repositories you should also consider using
configuration management eg. cfengine, puppet, spacewalk.





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