[Novalug] Patching RHEL6&5

James Swanson swanson.james@gmail.com
Tue Jul 2 10:11:56 EDT 2013


Don't copy anything you don't want updated.  Have a few directories with
specific patches if that's how you want it.  I haven't done it, but you can
probably write a script and cron that.

Jim


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Christopher Jones <
christopher.donald.jones@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks James that solves getting all the packages locally but what about
> controlling what gets updated, protecting certain packages, scheduling
> routine updates or notifications when updates are ready?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:47 AM, James Swanson <swanson.james@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I had to do this for a bunch of RHEL 6 servers on a special network.
>> Grab the updates from Red Hat using "yum update".  Copy them out of the
>> temp directory they're in and put them in a directory on a web server.
>> "createrepo" on the directory.  Add a local.repo file to the
>> /etc/yum.repos.d directory on the system to be updated.  "yum update" will
>> pull the updated rpms for you.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Christopher Jones <
>> christopher.donald.jones@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Lets say I've got 100 + RHEL 5&6 servers and growing. I need to update
>>> the servers but yum_updatesd and yum_cron are no longer in the official
>>> repos or epel for RHEL6. I don't have the cash to buy a RHEL Satellite
>>> Server and I can't use spacewalk because you have to use a few fedora
>>> packages and there is a warning about support issues from RedHat.
>>>
>>> What am I supposed to use for patching?
>>>
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