Another option, and granted this would take some effort, would be to take
something like the Ximian gnome installer and customize it for your site.
I played with the old Ximian update utility a while back and it contacts a
server for an XML file that describes the updates. It would take a quick
re-compilation to change the server it contacts to be internal, but other
than that everything is done via the XML files. Then you could put your
source compiled packages on the server and use this to update them. The
other nice part is that it just uses RPM to install the packages.
Now, could you use this to update 7.0->7.1 ? No, mainly because RedHat
doesn't officially do upgrades that way. Yes, I know you grab all the RPMs
and do an rpm --Fvh --force --nodeps *.rpm but that's not very elegant.
Hope that helps.
--rdp
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Brian Chabot wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Greg Kettmann wrote:
>
> > Red Hat supports "Kick Start" files. With this method you basically answer
> > all the questions up front, in the kickstart (.ks) file. It's fairly simple
> > to script in some RPM's as well if you'd like. I would think that this
> > might work well for you.
>
> I looked into that. It's great for setting up new installs to all be
> the same (Mandrake has a similar doo-hickey). There are 2 problems,
> though: 1) you need to boot to floopy to use it (I suppose this could
> be modified to a network boot, but it still requires a reboot...) and 2)
> it mirrors the entire drive... much like several other utilities I ran
> into. We need something where we can say... install a new version of
> program X compiled from source across the LAN without having to manually
> log in to each system let alone go to each one and reboot...
>
> I think I'll end up writing a bash script wrapper for remote_update.pl
> from freshmeat. It's fairly easy, but the configs are a bit complex to
> re-write each time something is updated.
>
>
> Brian
>
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