yum update all for current OS revision

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Hello,

I inherited a number of RHEL servers of a wide array of OS versions and have slowly been migrating them to RHEL 6.6, as it was the latest version of 6 when this project started.
Now that most of our boxes are on that standard version ..

  • Is there a way to run yum update without having it patch the OS up to 6.7?
PK
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ir. Jan Gerrit Kootstra's picture Guru 6222 points
29 September 2015 2:24 PM

Do you have a Satellite server or do you connect directly to RHN?

This determines whether or not it is an easy job explaining what to do.

For a Satellite it is an almost easy action to do.
spacewalk-clone-by-date using the date of your previous patch-date.

PK Community Member 40 points
29 September 2015 2:29 PM

Hello and thanks. Unfortunately we do not have Satellite and pull updates from RHN directly.

ir. Jan Gerrit Kootstra's picture Guru 6222 points
29 September 2015 4:28 PM

This make the situation harder, but there is one approach that may work.

run following command on a server that has already been patched, if on rpm level exactly the same as your newly to patch server.
rpm -qa>patch-level.txt

copy the patch-level.txt to the new server

run

cat patch-level.txt| xargs yum -y update

I know it cat patch-level.txt can be used as an "argument", but fail to get the back quotes visible

PK Community Member 40 points
29 September 2015 7:03 PM

Interesting .. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

David Powles's picture Red Hat 25369 points
1 October 2015 6:39 AM

Let us know how it goes, Brian!

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