RE: Question - Grab newbie

Thanks Greg for the quick response - I'm sorry to hear its not being
actively maintained anymore - apart from anything else it has the advantage
of not needing any special stuff done at the repository end.
 
> What is the command you ran?

I ran several to no beneficial effect

> Actually, this may not be what you want to here, but GRAB 
> will not autoinstall any rpms. You may be able to do something like:
> 
>    # grab --server LongReef -s '*' --auto
> 
> But I can't test this right now (at SC03).

Tried it but sadly no go there either

> > Next I want to be able basically to drop any rpms into the 
> repository 
> > and my customised boxes to automatically find them each night and 
> > install them whether they are updates or New - is this possible?  I 
> > know I can the nightly bit with cron but I can't work out 
> what the syntax for grab is.
> 
> As many may have noticed by the lack of posts and recent 
> releases, but GRAB is not being very actively maintained 
> anymore. If someone wishes to take over GRAB, please let me know.
> 
> Also, I should mention that the 'YUM' project at Duke 
> University is very actively maintained, and Seth has done a 
> great job with it. It is _much_ better at resolving 
> dependencies then GRAB, but it does have many of the advanced 
> searching facilities as GRAB. In any case, YUM will do what 
> you want with a command embedded in the yum.conf (check the 
> man page, you will find this).

I'm taking a look at this now - though I suspect it probably does far more
than I need.

> BTW: the consumption of my time has been spent on a new Linux 
> distribution (community managed and architected similar to 
> RedHat) at http://caosity.org/.
> Feel free to check it out...

Looks interesting - keep me posted

Thanks

Gavin