On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Rich Payne wrote: > > OK then, show me how to point up2date at a different repository? Or better > > yet how to setup my own up2date server. Yes, I'm a Debian user, I'm also a > > RedHat user, both have their advatages and disadvantages and one of the > > advantages of Debian is that the packaging system is a little bit ahead of > > RedHat (nothing that can't be fixed with apt-rpm so I hear). > > While I'm not really particular to one distribution or another.... Just > to answer your requests: > > To point up2date at a different repository, either use up2date --configure > or edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date. In there, you'll see the fields > 'NoSSLServerURL' and 'serverURL', point them at whatever repository you > want to..
Ah, this must be fairly new then.....(well, I say fairly new but I haven't used up2date in quite a while now). Can it handle multiple repositories do you know? > And, to run your own up2date server, the Current project is quite nice: > http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current/ Right, but RedHat still hasn't released the code to their up2date server right? The last I heard from RH was that you could setup your own server but that you needed to write a check first (I think it was at least five zeros on the check, though it may have been six) > > Also, up2date will install packages that aren't already installed... I > think it's something like up2date <packagename> - the real benefit here is > that you don't have to go hunting down dependency packages... up2date does > it for you. Right, this is what apt does on Debian as well. It knows the dependencies of a package and can fetch and install them itself, provided the repository has the correct versions present. -- Rich Payne http://talisman.mv.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
