[Gllug] RPMs and Rsync

[Walid Shaari]

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 09:15, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear GLLUGers,
> 
> I have three identical machines that run RH 8.0 with
> upgrades using RPMs.  Would it be possible to make one
> machine the master (i.e. only apply rpm updates to that
> machine) and keep the other two in sync using rsync?
> 
> My worry is that RPMs do more than replace files and that
> rsync might miss something.  Perhaps there's something
> better than rsync that I've not thought about.

brief answer:
	take a look at two other options of doing this
	apt-get for rpm		http://freshrpms.net/apt/
	current			http://current.tigris.org/	

So the concept will be centralizing the download point, and using that
node as the local proxy-node to check for updates, or retrieving them

Walid.



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