So RH sends out these errata notices and then disconnects the up2date application server for us poor schmoes that didn't buy RH8. Where can I find the patches and fixes without having to wait for them to reinstate the demo user access?
generally they send out an email with the ftp locations of the updates. Even if up2date is busy you can generally download them from the ftp server.
I usually just copy the urls for the files I need and paste them into a file. Then I just use "wget -i file" which will download the files for me. Since the ftp server maybe busy wget is nice because it will auto retry until it can log in and download the updates.
Then once the updates are downloaded, I generally run "rpm -Fvh" on them so that the updates I need are installed.
You can also skip the wget portion and just use "rpm -Fvh $(cat file)" as rpm will attempt to download and install the files for you. The problem with this method is that if the ftp server is busy and it can't download the file it will just skip it which isn't what you want.
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