On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 07:48, Allen Winter wrote: > Howdy, > > I have two identical HP notebook machines (mine and my wife's) that I just finished installing > fresh, new, FC2 loads. I checked the list of RPMs and both machines have the identical > packages installed -- and I want to keep it that way. So, just in case we have to use > each others machines we should have all the exact same packages (and versions) installed. > > Any advice on how to accomplish this goal? > I guess on my server machine I could keep a "master RPM list" and then have a cron > run on each machine against that list. But I don't want to maintain that list by hand. > > Ideas and advice appreciated. > Regards, ---- I would think that if both systems had the same sources / sources.list for their up2date-yum/apt that it they would hold together. Otherwise, I know up2date can be configured to 'retain' the rpm's it downloads and installs and then you can use that to update the other. I would suppose that yum/apt can probably do the same. Craig
