RE: automatic package add

With a little work you can do it reasonably with no work on the client
machines:

1. Create a meta-rpm that has dependancies for all the other packages you
want installed - or none to start with;
2. Take an existing package, rebuild with a dependancy for the meta-rpm,
increment the version number as little as possible (redhat tends to jump in
rpm versions anyway);
3. run up2date and it'll pull the modified redhat package and the new
meta-rpm;
4. the next redhat update will remove the dependancy on the meta-rpm, but
up2date won't remove it;
5. to push out a brand new package, like John said, just add the dependancy
to the meta-rpm and increment the version number...
								-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: John Berninger [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Current-server] automatic package add


> Can I add a complete new package on a client without telling 
> up2date the package name. I'm looking for a way to provide
> a client a complete new packages with this.
        If you mean "can I use a client-side command to install a new
package" then you must give it the package name; if you mean "Can I push
packages to clients from the server" then the answer is "Not yet".
That's a capability that's slated for a later development cycle, dealing
with client tracking and making RHNSD work.

        A hack would, of course, be to take an existing package, add a
dependency to the spec file, increment the version of that package, and
put the new package into the server tree.  This is not really
recommended, though...

> What exactly is the parameter xrpm_dirs in the config file. I've read
> almost every posting in the mailing list archive und the complete
documentation but I've found nothing.
        Good question.  Hunter?

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