Markus Gaugusch wrote:
On Sep 30, Andreas Haupt
wrote: Hello,
I plan to recheck SuSE's security updates before installing them on the machines. "Normal" packages are easy. I just imitate an update mirror with just links in it. If a link exists the corresponding patch will be installed. This way I can use SuSE's online_update.
Kernel updates on the other hand should just be installed when the system is going down. Furthermore I want the last working kernel not to be deinstalled when the new kernel is being installed. "rpm -i" would do this for me so I have vmlinuz (new kernel) and vmlinuz.previous (last working kernel) later on.
I think you want to look at my project: Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/
It sends you email notification for all updates, downloads them automatically and installation is just at your fingertips. Kernels are automatically backup'ed (vmlinuz.fou4s).
Looks nice! But I have a little problem: It seems that you can only use ftp/http/rsync server to load the patches from. A (nfs) directory like in /etc/suseservers (dir://<directory>) doesn't seem to work. Do I have to setup an internal web server that exports this directory via http? Greetings Andreas -- | Andreas Haupt | E-Mail: andreas.haupt@hmi.de | Hahn-Meitner-Institut (DN) | WWW: | Glienicker Straße 100 | Phone: +49/30/8062-2597 | 14109 Berlin | Fax: +49/30/8062-2096