RE: How to update a RHEL5 Satellite Server repo

Jon,

Well that is what I thought. I ran into a big problem after running "yum -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/var/www/htdocs/yum update" on the management server then performing a yum update on of my test clients. Both of the test clients wouldn't complete the start process. They would hang on the startup of various and different services.

I so far have been unable to get either of the systems to boot (even in single user) so I don't have much to go on. I did notice that the update did install a new kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 from 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5. I cannot boot from either kernel.

--Thanks, Chris


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From: "Stanley, Jon" <[email protected]> 

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> It makes no difference if the repo has files that aren't on your clients - 
> they're not going to get them just by doing a 'yum update' 
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> Of course, they could get them with, 'yum install ', but that's the point. 
> You could also use mrepo to do this. 
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
> Of [email protected] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:56 AM 
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: How to update a RHEL5 Satellite Server repo 
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> 
> I have created an install server/yum update server one a centralized RHEL5 
> Server (5.1, kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13) 
> 
> I am using apache2 on the server and http on the clients for both installing and 
> updating. 
> 
> This centralized install/update servers runs other aplications such as Nagios. 
> Because of this is has many optional packages installed. 
> 
> I populated my update repository by performing a new build on a client server 
> then ran "yum -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/var/www/htdocs/yum update". I 
> then transerred the downloaded packages to the management server into 
> /var/www/htdocs/yum. Lastly I ran "createrepo ." to create the repository. On 
> the clients I added a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/companyx.repo 
> 
> [rhel-companyx] 
> name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - i386 
> baseurl=http://server1.companyx.com/yum 
> enabled=1 
> gpgcheck=1 
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-company 
> 
> I ran yum update on the client server and it performed perfectly. 
> 
> I reliazed at that point I didn't have a method of keeping the yum update repo 
> up to date. If I run yum -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/var/www/htdocs/yum 
> update on the mangement server the repo will be populated with packages not 
> installed on any of my clients. Maybe I need to create a repo for each client 
> and somehow replicate the client RPM databases to the management server. Even if 
> I do replicated the rpm db to the managment server I don't see the oprion 
> --dbpath in yum that rpm has so I don't know how to utilized the client rpmdb. 
> 
> I am stuck and have to have this project done in a couple of days. I am under 
> pressure ! 
> 
> Oh, and purchasing the RedHat Satellite Server product from RedHat is not an 
> option for me. 
> 
> Any and all help will be greatly appreciated......... 
> 
> - --Thanks, Chris 
> 
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