[TriLUG] Updating with current

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 14:27, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 13:30, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> > I have what is probably a stupid question about current
> > (http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current/).  How can I add an
> > RPM?  I created an RPM that I would like to distribute and added it to
> > the appropriate directory on the current server.  Then I reran the
> > create script.  I need to know how to tell current to put it on my
> > servers though.  I think that it's trying to be smart -- like not
> > putting apache updates on servers that don't have apache installed --
> > but I want to override that.  Any hints?
> 
> It isn't really the responsibility of the current server to install RPMs
> on clients that don't already have them.  It's only supposed to be
> providing clients with updated versions of RPMs that are already
> installed.  This is especially the case with today's version of current,
> which doesn't store "state" information about the clients (like RHN
> does).
> 
> You can, however, use the up2date client to download and install from
> the current server by running "up2date -i <programname>".  This has to
> be done on the client though.

I see Hunter posted a better solution on the current-server list.  For
anyone else who's interested, see here:

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/current-server/2002-December/000902.html

--Jeremy