On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 17:46, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > Actually, the problem of making sure that N computers all have the > same set of RPMs installed is not terribly scalable either... > > Centralized software maintenance is a pretty obvious thing to do, but > I often suspect RedHat (and several others) of not really having > grasped the idea of having computers connected in a net. Mixing the > two maintenance models is probably not good, I tend to agree with you > on that.
actually (maybe you already know about this and you're getting at something else, though) we have developed yum for systems updates - http://linux.duke.edu/yum/ - it's an auto-updater that pulls rpm headers down from a server, determines which packages need to be updated, then pulls those specific rpms down and installs them. it has some other functionality as well - it can list packages matching a regex, install specified packages and their dependencies, remove packages, etc. etc. basically, we're trying to take all the stuff we like from apt-get. :) > > You might want to take a look at the scripts that Dethlef did for > creating RPMs of contributed packages on SuSE. thanks! can you tell me where i might find those? google dethlef site:r-project.org doesn't turn them up. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
