Team, Is anyone aware of a Red Hat Network alike system of server package update status that could be adapted for CentOS3? I'm not interested in the complete management aspect (channels, scheduling remote updates, etc) but merely the ability to see your list of systems and determine which are out of date with XXX packages. If you happen to manage a large-ish number of RHES3 systems, you know what a boon this is. ;) Ideas? Thx, -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
Hi Troy A system like that is definitely custom built and I don't believe there's a system available anywhere off the shelf. As long as you have a good skiplist, you can always run yum or any of the updaters that you may use on a cron nightly.. Just a thought. Regards CM -----Original Message----- From: centos-admin at caosity.org [mailto:centos-admin at caosity.org] On Behalf Of Troy Engel Sent: 15 September 2004 00:08 To: CentOS Users Subject: [Centos] RHN-like system for CentOS? Team, Is anyone aware of a Red Hat Network alike system of server package update status that could be adapted for CentOS3? I'm not interested in the complete management aspect (channels, scheduling remote updates, etc) but merely the ability to see your list of systems and determine which are out of date with XXX packages. If you happen to manage a large-ish number of RHES3 systems, you know what a boon this is. ;) Ideas? Thx, -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at caosity.org http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Troy Engel wrote:> Is anyone aware of a Red Hat Network alike system of server package update > status that could be adapted for CentOS3? I'm not interested in the complete > management aspect (channels, scheduling remote updates, etc) but merely the > ability to see your list of systems and determine which are out of date with > XXX packages. If you happen to manage a large-ish number of RHES3 systems, you > know what a boon this is. ;)Hi Troy, I'd be very interested in a simple tool that can do this against the new repository metadata. I think it could be part of a tool-set for packagers and sysadmins. There are some other basic tools that packagers and sysadmins are currently lacking, like something to clean up .rpmnew/.rpmsave mess, to backup a system based on what's different from the rpmdb, a tool to reinstall a system that has been damaged or rooted, etc... I've written some of these things for myself in Bash, but like to reimplement and improve them using python and the python-rpm bindings. -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]