CentOS 5 x86_64 -- where is up2date?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 9/8/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >On 9/8/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >> >I'm pretty sure that up2date was replaced with yum.  Even if it
> >> >wasn't, why would you want to use up2date if you already have yum?
> >>
> >> To get a list of the most current versions of packages while
> >> creating a clean install server with all updates.  Perhaps
> >> there's a better way to do this that I don't know that's simpler
> >> than replacing the old packages in the CentOS directory with the
> >> most recent version.
> >
> >Perhaps i'm just not understanding what you're trying to
> >accomplish,but why can't you just do a 'yum -y update' as part of the
> >kickstart post-install (or even add it to rc.local ?
>
> I'm trying to maintain an install server that has all updates to
> avoid having to do initial ``yum update'' which has to load over
> 500MB of updates which can be very time-consuming.
>
> I have this working for CentOS 4.5, and would like to have the
> same capability on 5.x.

So configure yum not to clean its packages after an update, then doa
createrepo, and you have your own local repository.


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