[tools] up2date client config

[Johan Booysen]

Hi David,

Many thanks for your reply.

In the meantime I've installed yum on the mrepo server and changed
mrepo.conf to specify that yum metadata should be generated:  'metadata
= yum'.  Then ran the command 'mrepo -ugvv' but this didn't yield
anything related to whether or not it actually generated yum metadata.
Is it possible to somehow confirm what metadata was or wasn't created?

On the client I commented out the "up2date default" entry and added the
following to the sources file:

yum base http://pofadder/mrepo/rhel3es-i386/RPMS.os
yum updates http://pofadder/mrepo/rhel3es-i386/RPMS.updates
yum other http://pofadder/mrepo/rhel3es-i386/RPMS.other 

But, the client still seems to be connecting to the RHN server and not
to the mrepo one.  It's a virtual RHEL3 server that was previously
registered with RHN, and now, when running up2date, it complains about
needing to reregister with RHN.

Maybe it's the version of yum I'm using (yum-2.0.8-0.1.el3.rf), although
the documentation states that yum < 2.4 should be ok for generating yum
metadata.

If you have any advice I will greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

Johan

-----Original Message-----
From: David Jonas [mailto:djonas at vitalwerks.com] 
Sent: 08 June 2007 17:20
To: Johan Booysen
Cc: tools at lists.rpmforge.net
Subject: Re: [tools] up2date client config

Johan Booysen wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I've just set up mrepo, and it looks very much like what we need.  
> Great piece of work!
>  
> However, can anyone please tell me how I "point" up2date on Red Hat 
> EL3 clients at mrepo?

Depends a little on what metadata you're generating. We use apt, so our
line looks like this:

apt all http://mrepo.localnet rhel4es-i386 os extras updates local

Back in March there was a post that included a few yum lines:

yum rhel4os http://hostname/mrepo/rhel4es-i386/RPMS.os/
yum rhel4updates http://hostname/mrepo/rhel4es-i386/RPMS.updates/
yum local http://hostname/mrepo/rhel4es-i386/RPMS.local/

> I've found any number of instructions on how to use yum, but I want to

> be able to use up2date on the clients.
>  
> Most information about this simply says you need to modify 
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to point at mrepo, but I can't find an 
> example for doing that with up2date anywhere...so I've fiddled with 
> the sources file but don't seem to be getting anywhere.

This instructions for the sources file should really get into
http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/tools/mrepo/docs/redhat-network.txt

> I also tried using up2date-config to get up the gui and modified 
> "..Server to use" to be 
> http://pofadder/mrepo/rhel3es-i386/RPMS.updates/ (and variants of that

> url), but no luck.
>  
> Thanks in advance.
>  
> Johan
> 
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