up2date source

[Binford]

I know the standard answer is up2date is no longer supported in Fedora, use yum, but in this case that doesn't work. We have an internal server built up for up2date channels for our RH ES and AS environment and I need to access the RPM's built off it.

We have developed an entire Engineering Management framework (we call it EM) and I can't just tell management to go 'use yum' for new Desktops using Fedora Core.

hence, can someone point me to where I could get the src RPM's for up2date to build on FC5 and integrate?

Thanks.

[lazlow]

Binford

If I remember the discussion correctly there was a major conflict between Selinux and up2date. Unless you are prepared for a couple hundred man hours of recoding and a totally customized Selinux (not good), I think you will have to migrate with the herd. I beleive RedHat will be migrating to yum with its next release as well. If you are after controling what updates are available it is possible to build your own repo. The short answers is that it is not a matter of if you will migrate to yum, but when.


Good luck

Lazlow

Double posting is considered to be rude.

[bob]

Please don't double post: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=122921 Other post closed.

[Firewing1]

Try using "yumex", or the new alternative "pup". Here's how to install both:

su -
yum install pirut yumex

Now both 'pup' and 'yumex' are available though your system menus.
Firewing1

[Binford]

Originally Posted by lazlow

Binford

If I remember the discussion correctly there was a major conflict between Selinux and up2date. Unless you are prepared for a couple hundred man hours of recoding and a totally customized Selinux (not good), I think you will have to migrate with the herd. I beleive RedHat will be migrating to yum with its next release as well. If you are after controling what updates are available it is possible to build your own repo. The short answers is that it is not a matter of if you will migrate to yum, but when.


Good luck

Lazlow

Double posting is considered to be rude.

I am unable to find any discussion ofof RH moving to yum in the next release of RHES and RhAS. Can you provide a link?

[Firewing1]

In FC6 (you can check it you by install "yum-updatesd" from development) there is a yum applet that works quite well, and it's used with Pup, the GUI to yum. Is this what you're referring to?
Firewing1

[Techokami]

Wow... some of you aren't reading his post.

We have an internal server built up for up2date channels for our RH ES and AS environment and I need to access the RPM's built off it.

Translation: His company is using a modified up2date to distribute software updates across the LAN locally, however he needs the source code to port it to FC5, which is what his company is now using.

If I'm wrong, I'd rather have the topic creator correct me.

Anyways, to actually look useful, here's the SRPM for the last version of up2date

[Firewing1]

In that case, either way - Instead create a Yum repo instead using createrepo. Install it with:

yum install createrepo

Firewing1

[wshawn]

I have a redhat 4 webserver which uses yum. You might want to look into build repo, I believe you can have it re create the repo for use with yum...

Slowjet has the idea here http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=580905&postcount=3

[RahulSundaram]

Originally Posted by Binford

I am unable to find any discussion ofof RH moving to yum in the next release of RHES and RhAS. Can you provide a link?

RHEL 5 will use yum.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhel.../msg00000.html

[Binford]

Originally Posted by Knuckles T15

Wow... some of you aren't reading his post.

I see that over and over here...

Originally Posted by Knuckles T15

Anyways, to actually look useful, here's the SRPM for the last version of up2date

Thank you that was very much what I was looking for, and that made installing up2date very easy on FC5.

# rpm -ivh up2date-4.4.23-4.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# rpmbuild -bb up2date.spec

This will build 3 RPM's for installation. Before we install these we need a couple of pre-requisites, which are available from yum thankfully

# yum -y install rhnlib

This will install both the rhnlib and pyOpenSSl RPM's. Now we can install up2date

# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
# rpm -ivh up2date-*

DONE. BUT now...

[root@localhost log]# up2date --nox --show-channels An error has occurred:
exceptions.AttributeError
See /var/log/up2date for more information

Thu Sep 14 12:08:36 2006] up2date File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1265, in ?
sys.exit(main() or 0)
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 328, in main
sources = sourcesConfig.getSources()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 263, in getSources
scfg = SourcesConfigFile(filename="/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources")
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 42, in __init__
self.load()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 85, in load
self.parseRepomd(line)
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py", line 220, in parseRepomd
yb = yumBaseRepo.initYumRepo()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumBaseRepo.py", line 40, in initYumRepo
yb = YumBaseRepo()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumBaseRepo.py", line 20, in __init__
self.conf = yum.config.yumconf()

That has ot be the most useless log data I have ever seen... WTF is the problem???

FYI to be clear I edited the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and pointed to our local satellite

[Firewing1]

It's useless because you don't know python (no insult meant if you do, but if you did then you'd realize how useful infact these are...) It traces for a reason, so you can solve the issue...

It's either because you made a type in your line, making a parse error, or because FC5 isn't meant to use up2date, it's breaking.
Firewing1