> I think that it's baout time that we had some sort of project on the go
> to allow for automatic updating (a "niced" process in the background
> started whenver we dial up, or running as a daemon process on those
> machines permanently online). Would have to access (mirror) sites that
> are verified as being trustworthy (such as RedHat's or Linux.org's).
There's a package available called autorpm (available at all good redhat contrib
mirror site :) ), which :
mirror RPMs
from an FTP site, keep installed RPMs consistent with an FTP site or local
directory, and keep installed RPMs in a cluster or network of systems consis-
tent. It is highly flexible... and if it can't do something, email me and I
will probably implement that too...
(Quoted from rpm -qpi autorpm-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm)
I've used it a couple of times, and it is pretty flexible. You can set it up to
download from multiple site and directories, including sites that require password
authorization, and I think it can do http downloading too (but i'm not too sure)
> Could start as a simple script that maintains a record or your latest
> level of installed software (RPM already does this) and ftps onto the
> source server, does a listing, greps for your software modules, passes it
> through "sed" to get the versions, and then downloads those that have
> changed, updating your local record of the versions that you have
> already. It could construct a shell script to apply the patches, but
> without more intelligence, would probably be dodgy to actually RUN the
> script without human intervention.
Simpler still : install autorpm, and have it cron'd to run nightly or something
> Building on this, we (the Linux community)could extend this (perhaps use
> the rpm system?) to a fully fledged patch management system.
This is almost there... as long as it's set up comprehensivly.
Simon Delicata
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