Wow! Those are really cool. Thanks for the pointers, Mark. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 4:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: (clug-talk) (admin) Linux deployment methodologies - was XP P asswords Useless!!!!
At 03:52 PM 2/18/03, you wrote: >a combination of setting up an RPM repository and an update tool (e.g. >autorpm >or the update app supplied with the distro you'll be using) should do the >trick once the system is actually installed... > >would you be looking to use this RIS-replacement for install or post-install Post-install Our guy suggests looking at apt-rpm for this kind of thing. Our scripts work but we have put to much reliance on RedHat not messing up package revisions so it might not work as well in your environment. <quote> If one has one distribution to maintain, and is not subscribed to 'up2date' service - which could be rather a pretty good idea, I think that I would recommend nowadays 'apt-rpm'. http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/ http://freshrpms.net/apt/ On freshrpms.net you will find a list of a number of repositories. A command line interface of that can be scripted (and likely you can make this work well enough for few different distributions with little of ingenuity) and configured to keep what was downloaded, or only download and also other options. There is also 'synaptic' GUI interface for those who would need it. I played with that a bit and it seems to work rather well. </quote> -- Mark Lane Hard Data Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada T5X 1Y3 http://www.harddata.com/ --> Ask me about our Affordable Alpha Systems! <--
