up2date for testing (with apt/yum/dir repo support)

Adrian Likins alikins at redhat.com
Wed Aug 13 18:30:34 UTC 2003


On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:32:05PM -0400, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:19:44 -0400
> Adrian Likins <alikins at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/~alikins/up2date/severn/
> > 
> > New up2date for testing. Somewhat notable new
> > feature of support for 3rd party yum and apt
> > repos. See /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for info
> > on configuring them (docs to come). 
> > 
> > In addition to the apt/yum repos, it also
> > now supports using a local dir of rpms as
> > a "repo"
> > 
> > Feedback appreciated (usually ;-> )
> > 
> > 
> 
> Must one register with redhat to use up2date against a local repo?   
> 
	Yes. At the moment at least, though I don't have any
plans to change that at this point.

> One problem i had was caused by an old systemid file from the 7.3 era.
> No matter what i typed i got the error shown below.  It would be nice 
> if rhn_register had a --force option or even better ask if it should
> ignore or use the the current systemid file.
> 
	`up2date --register` or `rhn_register --register` will 
"force" a reregister. 

Adrian





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