20 KRUD Updates

20.1 Updates using yum and NFS

1. If necessary create a directory structure
   $ sudo mkdir -p /var/krud/fc3
2. Insert CD
3. Mount it
   $ sudo mount /mnt/cdrom
4. Copy the RPMS files. Use the release date as a target. For example: 
   $ sudo rsync -vaP /mnt/cdrom/Fedora /var/krud/fc3/2005-02
5. Eject CD
   $ sudo eject
6. Repeat from from Step 2 for each CD
7. Create a package symlink
   $ cd /var/krud/fc3 
   $ sudo ln -sf 2005-01 Fedora
8. If this is the first time: 
   $ sudo ln -sf Fedora/RPMS core
9. create the headers (this takes a few minutes) 
   $ cd core 
   $ sudo mkdir headers 
   $ sudo yum-arch .
10. FC 3 changed the format for the headers so ue createrepo instead
    $ cd core 
    $ sudo createrepo .
11. Make sure /var/krud is acessible via http
    $ sudo ln -sf /var/krud /var/www/html/krud

20.1.1 Updating

1. Log onto the machine to be updated
   1. If necessary, edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo to add krud/fc3/core as a repository for [base]
      baseurl=http://<server>/krud/fc3/core
   2. Change the Enabled = to 0 in any files not needed.
2. Begin interactive update
   $ sudo yum update .
3. Or a non-interactive update
   $ sudo yum -y update .