[TriLUG] updating multiple systems at once w/ yum

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Douglas Kojetin wrote:

> Could anyone offer any links and/or instructions to help me set 
> something up ... or point me in a certain direction?

* Get an http or ftp daemon working on one of your machines.
* Set up an rsync job to download the available RPM's for your machines on 
  a regular basis.
* At the tail end of that job, run "yum-arch /path/to/rpms"
* Make sure your /path/to/rpms is accessible via http or ftp
* Add the relevant URLs to your /etc/yum.conf on all client machines.
* "chckconfig yum on && service yum start" on your yum client machines.

That is the most basic way to get auto updates going on all your machines.

If you want to get into pseudo-pushing packages out, you want to Google 
the yum mailing list archives to figure out how to make a yumgroups.xml 
(easy) and probably update your daily cron job to do something like "yum 
groupinstall mybundle".  It's easier than you think.