RE: rpms again

Attached is the script I use to pull updates from updates.redhat.com for our
site.  I think its quite different from what I've seen anyone post so far.

I run it in a cron job every night. It does not rebuild the current channels
automatically. I do that manually after examining the updates first.

What does it do?

1. It takes inventory of what updates you already have mirrored locally.
2. Uses wget to update your mirror.
3. Takes new inventory.
4. If there are any new files, it make a list of them and emails you.

I'm sure its not bullet proof but works for me.

Toby


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of jeremy
johnson
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:35 PM
To: [email protected]; Rob Hagopian
Cc: Current Server Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Current-server] rpms again


Ill be giving 1.3 a shot today with about 200+ clients. Is this release
multi threaded?  Ive been outa the loop for awhile and still running
current-1.0.3-1 :)  Anyways what are some good errata mirrors? it appears
the mirror i used is now extremely slow ALL the time!  Also whats a good way
to check for errata updates on a daily basis and get only the versions you
dont already have?  The current method that im using is just downloading the
whole site at midnight, which works but is not really the best method.  Any
suggestions would be welcomed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hunter Matthews" <[email protected]>
To: "Rob Hagopian" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Current Server Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: [Current-server] rpms again


> I have placed the src rpms for the updated clients on the ftp site.
> These are the ones I'll start rolling out to my own department monday,
> so they HAVE NOT BEEN tested extensively, but they seem to be right.
>
> They should work/install on both redhat 7.2 and redhat 7.3 machines.
>
> Naturally, you'll want to install the src rpms, change the config files
> in each to point to your sites Current server, and rpm -ba them.
>
> Please let me know of trouble.
>
>
> On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 22:46, Rob Hagopian wrote:
> > Any chance you could post to the list, email me a copy, or check it into
> > CVS? We're about to do a big (350 server) install this week...
> > -Rob
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hunter Matthews [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 4:01 PM
> > To: Current Server Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Current-server] rpms again
> >
> >
> > As mentioned earlier, I'm redoing mine with 2.7.86 right this second, so
> > we'll know in a bit.
> >
> >
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#! /bin/sh
# Toby D. Reeves
# September 2002
# $Id: redhat-updates.sh,v 1.6 2002/09/12 13:51:40 toby Exp $
# Get Red Hat Linux updates from Red Hat.
# Notify by email when there are new updates ready to be installed.

MAIL_TO="toby [email protected]"

LOG="status.log"
BEFORE_LST="before.listing"
AFTER_LST="after.listing"
NEW_LST="new.listing"
PID_FILE="$0.pid"

WGET_BASE="ftp://updates.redhat.com"
WGET_LOG="wget.log"
WGET_DIR=`echo $WGET_BASE | sed -e "s/.*:\/\///"`

until [ -z "$1" ]
do
    case "$1" in
    -d|--dry*)
	DRY_RUN="yes"
	;;
    -f|--force*)
	rm -f $PID_FILE
	;;
    -h|--help|*)
	cat <<EOF

Usage: $0 [-d | --dry-run] [-f | --force]
Toby D. Reeves <[email protected]>
Sept 2002
EOF
	exit 1
    esac

    shift
done

if [ -e $PID_FILE ]; then
    echo "  It appears a previous run of script '$0' is still running."
    echo "  If this is not the case, then please remove the file '$PID_FILE'"
    echo "  or specify command line option of '--force'."
    exit 1
fi

echo $$ >$PID_FILE

trap 'rm -f $PID_FILE' EXIT

echo "Lastest files from Red Hat now on " `hostname` " :" > ${LOG}
echo >> ${LOG}
echo "Started:" `date` >> ${LOG}

test -d $WGET_DIR || mkdir $WGET_DIR
(cd $WGET_DIR; find . -name "*.rpm" -printf "%p | %t | %s\n" | sort) > ${BEFORE_LST}

test "x$DRY_RUN" != "xyes" && \
    wget -o ${WGET_LOG} --dot-style=mega --mirror \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.2/en/os/i386 \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.2/en/os/i486 \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.2/en/os/i586 \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.2/en/os/i686 \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.2/en/os/noarch \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.3/en/os/i386 \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.3/en/os/i486 \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.3/en/os/i586 \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.3/en/os/i686 \
	 ${WGET_BASE}/7.3/en/os/noarch

(cd $WGET_DIR; find . -name "*.rpm" -printf "%p | %t | %s\n" | sort) > ${AFTER_LST}

comm -1 -3 ${BEFORE_LST} ${AFTER_LST} > ${NEW_LST}

echo "Finished:" `date` >> ${LOG}
echo >> ${LOG}

if [ "x$DRY_RUN" = "xyes" -o -s ${NEW_LST} ]; then
    cat ${NEW_LST} >> ${LOG}
    cp ${LOG} ${LOG}-`date "+%Y%m%d%H%M"`
    if [ "x$MAIL_TO" != "x" ]; then
	cat ${LOG} | mail -s "up2date" ${MAIL_TO}
    fi
fi

rm -f $BEFORE_LST $AFTER_LST $NEW_LST $PID_FILE