[WBEL-users] Building My own Updates.

[Rafael Baquero S.]

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 12:45, Joshua Weage wrote:
> You'll need to install the lostRPMS too, they are on disk 1.
>
> For updates, I recommend the following:
>
> wget doesn't do a true mirror (I think).  rsync is the best option, but
> you could also look at ftpmirror.py or lftp.  If you use one of these,
> configure it to delete old files in your local SRPMS update repository.

If I recall correctly wget does not delete files that do not exist on the 
remote side so it is not a true mirroring tool (it was not meant to be one 
either). The disadvantage of deleting old files based upon the listing of the 
remote server is that if someone makes a mistake and deletes all or some 
files that he should not delete then THOSE FILES WILL END UP BEING DELETED 
FROM YOUR SYSTEM ALSO. This has happened before (check past postings).

Personally I prefer to keep old files or move them to a separate directory 
locally (i.e. using a local script to verify packagename/version).

> After updating your SRPMS, you can compare the filenames of your SRPMS
> with your binary RPMS ('man basename' for a useful tool) and then just
> use "rpmbuild --rebuild xxx.src.rpm" on the new SRPMS.  This will
> produce a new binary RPM and will clean out the build, source and spec
> files.  Then just delete the old binary in your repository and move the
> new one into place.
>
> > (5) Learn about setting up a yum repo ;-) to point
> > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to
>
> Yum is very cool, and easy to setup:
>
> "yum-arch dir"
>
> will setup your repo.  Just run that on each directory containing rpms.
>
> Josh
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