yum meta-package for driver updates

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:44:55PM -0400, Eric Yablonowitz wrote:
> I am using the Dell hardware yum repository to install OMSA as part  
> of our kickstart process on CentOS 5.  I'd like to also automatically  
> install all available driver updates (megaraid, network etc).  Would  
> it make sense to have a meta-package in each of the hardware/distro  
> specific repositories that includes all the driver updates available  
> as dependencies?

It makes a lot of sense and it is one thing on my todo list to
investigate. The problem I have run into is that it must be dynamically
generated. In the hardware repository, each os/platform combo
potentially has a completely different list of driver
updates.

What I have come up with is that it would be really nice if there were a
way to tell yum or up2date "install all the rpms in this repo".

I dont think that there is a way to do that, so I was thinking about
writing a yum plugin to do this.

What do you think? Something people would use and be useful?
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Michael