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Great stuff
by Frank Steiner - Apr 5th 2002 04:10:05
I use autorpm to keep all of our hosts in the network at the same level,
for official rpm updates as well as for our local software. Great tool! I
couldn't do without!
Although it took some time for the 2.x to work well, it seems to run fine
now, and it's very actively maintained. Kirk reacts very fast to bug
reports, comments etc.
Great work!
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Actively Maintained?
by Nik Conwell - Sep 29th 2000 09:23:50
I've found a couple of bugs/problems and mailed Kirk as suggested in
the docs but he doesn't respond. Is this package actively being
maintained?
Probs: The pool defs are a bit stale now.
The parsing for the ftp ls output sometimes fails
depending on the site, it may not parse the line
and so misses stuff.
Parse fix I hacked up (sorry about wrap/crap):
[sbin]# diff -c autorpm.20000929 autorpm
*** autorpm.20000929 Sun Jan 9 19:42:29 2000
--- autorpm Fri Sep 29 09:19:09 2000
***************
*** 1352,1357 ****
--- 1352,1358 ----
}
}
foreach $Temp (@DirListing) {
+ Inform(' ' . $Temp . "n");
if ( ($LinkName,$LinkDest) = ($Temp =~
/^l[rwxst-]{9}s+S+s+S+s+S+s+[0123456789]+ ... .. [ ]?..[:]?..s+(.*) ->
(.*)$/ ) ) {
if ($LinkName eq $CurrFTPDir) {
# The actual directory we are looking at is a symlink, so
look at the directory it points to
***************
*** 1385,1395 ****
$RemoteSizes{$LinkDest} = $FileSize;
}
}
! elsif ( ($FileName) = ($Temp =~
/^d[rwxst-]{9}s+S+s+S+s+S+s+[0123456789]+ ... .. [ ]?..[:]?..s+(.*)$/ ) )
{
# Directory...
push @SourceList, $CurrFTPDir . $FileName . '/';
}
! elsif ( ($FileSize, $FileName) = ($Temp =~
/^[rwxst-]{10}s+S+s+S+s+S+s+([0123456789]+) ... .. [ ]?..[:]?..s+(.*)$/ )
) {
# Regular file...
push @SourceList, $CurrFTPDir . $FileName;
$RemoteSizes{$CurrFTPDir . $FileName} = $FileSize;
--- 1386,1396 ----
$RemoteSizes{$LinkDest} = $FileSize;
}
}
! elsif ( ($FileName) = ($Temp =~ /^d[rwxst-]{9}.*s+... .. [
]?..[:]?..s+(.*)$/ ) ) {
# Directory...
push @SourceList, $CurrFTPDir . $FileName . '/';
}
! elsif ( ($FileSize, $FileName) = ($Temp =~
/^[rwxst-]{10}s+.*s+([0123456789]+)s+... .. [ ]?..[:]?..s+(.*)$/ ) ) {
# Regular file...
push @SourceList, $CurrFTPDir . $FileName;
$RemoteSizes{$CurrFTPDir . $FileName} = $FileSize;
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Re: Actively Maintained?
by Kirk Bauer - Apr 3rd 2002 13:42:13
> I've found a couple of
> bugs/problems and mailed Kirk as
> suggested in the docs but he
> doesn't respond. Is this package
> actively being maintained?
I had slacked off for a while, but AutoRPM is now being actively
maintained and expanded again.
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dependency problems
by Matthew Miller - May 23rd 2000 11:25:31
Autorpm is nice, but it has issues when there are multiple dependencies. It
tries to upgrade packages one at a time, which often doesn't work. For
example, it can't upgrade netscape:
netscape-communicator 4.72 requires netscape-common = 4.72. This means
netscape-common 4.73 can't be installed without breaking the dependency.
But, of course, the -communicator 4.73 package can't be installed until
-common is updated.
Since Red Hat is splitting out more and more packages this way, this
is becoming a crippling problem, making autorpm almost useless.
The solution to this would be to specify all package names on the same
rpm command line, so that RPM itself can sort all this out.
Hopefully the next version will fix this.
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fails for 6.1 deps ??
by kreucher - Feb 4th 2000 11:50:59
when using autorpm for rh6.1, it fails for alot of the update rpms if you
have the devel packages installed.
if it tries to upgrade say ORBit, it fails becasue ORBit-devel needs the
same version of the non-devel ORBit package.
it fails on similar package pairs.
is there a way to make autorpm smart enough to install both the devel and
non devel packages at the same time so the deps are ok?
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AutoRPM scheduling
by xStatiCa - Aug 23rd 1999 21:34:12
It is a VERY useful program. Much better than the shell script I made :)
Hopefully thousands of people dont all use the default AutoRPM time to
do the updates. I can see the ftp mirrors all come to a halt when 20000
people all update at 4am ;).
xStatiCa
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Autorpm
by n0ety - Jun 30th 1999 06:42:07
This great program works flawlessly on my RH5.2 & RH6.0 systems.
I would recommend, and have recommended to anyone who wants to stay up to
date on RPM revisions.
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