Troy Dawson wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: >> >> Considering everyone has moved to including the yumconfigs in the >> -release package, I wonder why you are still shipping alternate >> yumconf packages? >> >> - KB > > Everyone hasn't *moved* to including the yum configuration in the main > release package, it's always been that way. I think what Karambir means is that people are shipping config files in redhat-release / fedora-release ... etc rpms while SL uses another separate rpm for that purpose... What we do for SLC variant is: - ship SL yum (plus some plugins) with default install - ship yum-conf rpm which contains files for all repos available from our install/update server - some are enabled / some disabled by default: in all cases the 'protectbase' is set for system/updates repo (for sake of compatibility we do not allow by default that packages from 3rd parties repos overwrite system update) - ship yum-autoupdate rpm (this is our own bash script which takes care of: 1. updating on boot (with countdown allowing for user interrupt if in a hurry to boot ;-)) 2. running daily update (at configurable hour plus random interval) 3. mailing formatted results (all above configurable in an /etc/sysconfig file, hooked up with init.d script). yes: I know all these is available elsewhere from separate packages: advantage of this one (for us) is that this is a single ~ 7500 bytes bash script depending only on: bash, tee, unbuffer (yep .. this is ugly: but I could not figure out how to do it in bash .. tell me if you have an idea) .. and yum itself. If anybody is interested, latest version is at: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/updates/SRPMS/yum-autoupdate-2-8.slc4.cern.src.rpm (the motivation behind above was that we didn;t like too much concatenating config files on the fly by the previous script available: made eventual debugging of the problem little bit harder..) I think that moving yum config files into sl-release could be a good idea .. Cheers Jarek __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/FIO/LA _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _