[plug] forcing RH's "up2date" to use a WAIX-accessable RH mirror

[Luke dudney]

On 12/03/03 14:11, Craig Ringer wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I've just had to descend into the "interesting" land of Red Hat for 
> our shiny new Dual Xeon box, due to "official support" requirements of 
> sofware we're using. I have what may be a newbie question but some 
> quick looking on google hasn't helped me, so:
>
> How can I use "up2date" (which is the closest RH has to apt, yes?) 
> with a local mirror of RH at, say, ftp.iinet.net.au instead of RHN? It 
> /must/ be possible, but I can't find any useful info on it. If so, is 
> there an alternative program to handle updates with dependencies, etc? 
> RHN is so painfully slow its scary.
>
> Craig
>
I don't think it's possible with up2date.
You can use rpmfind's --autoupgrade feature.
Import the redhat GPG key to root's keyring, then add to /root/.rpmfind:
autoupgradeUrl=ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/redhat/updates/whatever.....
paranoid=yes

running rpmfind --autoupgrade should download and install the updates 
and their dependencies.

Cheers
Luke