Hi Connie,

> > Hi Connie,
> > 
> > > > root@radon# up2date -l
> > > > 
> > > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: scientific-base...
> > > > 
> > > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: scientific-errata...
> > > > 
> > > > Fetching rpm headers...
> > > > ########################################
> > > > 
> > > > Name                                    Version        Rel
> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > > cvs                                     1.11.17        7.RHEL4       
   i386
> > > > devhelp                                 0.9.2          2.4.4         
   i386
> > > > mozilla-nspr                            1.7.7          1.4.2             i
> > > >
> > > 
> > > We  only made this to work for the case were up2date got turned on 
> > > by default to handle the "automatic" update.  We did not want it 
> > > trying to contact redhat.
> > > 
> > > -Connie Sieh
> > 
> > I'm starting to look at:
> > 
> > http://current.tigris.org/
> > 
> > which seems to make use of up2date but without the restrictions of using the
> > RHN network. It seems to facilitate my need to update multiple systems.
> 
> What feature do you need?

I need a way where I can "view" or know about the updates required on each of
my servers, like a "snapshot view" of current states of all servers.

I run various SL and FC machines. At the moment, I have yum repos setup on all
these machines, and as they differ by distribution, so do the repos they
check. For example, the repos I use are SL, Dag, ATrpms, Freshrpms and these
differ for SL3, SL4, FC1, FC2, FC3. Although my intention is to abandon FC
releases altogether and move them all to SL, while I organise this I still
have to keep them up-to-date.

Currently I run a "yum check-update" each night on each server, and have that
output emailed to me each day, which I go through each morning. So in addition
to the multiple repos, I receive a considerable  amount of emails which I go
through. And because the output of "yum check-update" also produces a list of
updated packages I don't care about, I'd also like a way to monitor if
particular packages have been updated on particular servers which have those
packages installed.

There currently doesn't seem to be any easy way to do this.

I have used up2date and RHN before and it's pretty good, but limited to RHN
(even when making you own up2date server).

"current" seems to be the answer for me, although not meeting every single
requirement I have above, would seem to be better than the method I have now.

Michael.