Tree Tools

Tree Tools is a small collection of utilities that are very useful in maintaining a Red Hat Linux-, Fedora Core-, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based product. Tools to check dependancies, create build roots, build packages in build roots, and add updates or errata to an existing product.

These tools play a part in the maintenance of DuLUG Linux at Duke University and Realm Linux at NC State University. These tools are written by Seth Vidal, Jack Neely, and others.

Files and Utilities

Some more detailed information about what's here.

• addrpm.py - This tool takes errata or updates (ie: from Red Hat) and sticks them in a Red Hat-ish install tree. Afterwards, all you need to do is re-run genhdlist from the anaconda-runtime package to make it so you can install from a freshly updated tree.
• buildroot.py - There are many different theories about how you should go about creating a build root to build packages in. This script is pointed at an install tree and installs all RPMS found to create a build root. Yum might be a better choice as it has similar functionality to install comps Groups into a build root.
• buildpkg.py - This packages has some requirements that can be found in the Downloads directory. This tool takes a source RPM and does an automated build inside a specific build root. For example, you can build packages for several different version of Fedora Core all on one machine.
• checkupdates.py - CheckUpdates is an overly simple tool that's really ment as a building block for other things. It does have a few requiresments that are in the Downloads directory. This tool examines an install tree and a directory full of errata/updates to see if any of the errata need to be applied.
• Packages - In the Downloads directory you will also find realmkit-maintenance packages. This packages contains the above tools and a few more things to automate the process of keeping Red Hat based install trees up to date. There is some extra documentation in there as well.
• More Stuff - More stuff is here as well. Check it out!

Development Information

You will find that all these tools are licensed under the GNU General Public License. If you would like to submit a patch or new tool please contact me at jjneely@pams.ncsu.edu.

All files are contained in the Downloads directory.

Older stuff can be found in the Archive.