Current is a server for Red Hat's up2date tools. It can scale
to hundreds of machines. The backend is powered by one of
several SQL databases. It aims to be a complete remote
management system for any Linux machines that can run
up2date.
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This version fixes errors in the channel scan code
path that was nonfunctional in 1.7.5. This also
includes code to reconnect to MySQL databases when
the connection times out. The database also
collects a bit more meta information about each
client, and that is displayed in the TG web
interface.
Changes in this version include user authentication. To use cadmin, you must first log in to Current using the cadmin 'login' command. All of the non-RHN XMLRPC API now requires a session argument that is returned by cadmin.login(). There is also a TurboGears-based Web interface in the works. This is located in the tarball in the cwebapp/ directory. The RPM does not install it yet.
This version introduces Yum support. Current will generate the Yum metadata for each channel and a Yum plugin that will register your client with the Current server and adjust the HTTP headers so that Yum can download packages was added.
This snapshot includes support for tracked clients
(rather than anonymous) and support for multiple
channels that can be subscribed or unsubscribed to
each client. The Web interface has been removed in
favor of future work with TurboGears.
Support for ia32e machines was added. Minor
bugfixes were made to the PostgreSQL layer, and
handling of exceptions during a database rollback
was improved. Support was added for Up2date on
Fedora Core 4.
