On Fri, Sep 19, 2003, Alon Altman wrote about "Re: [Haifux] RedHat 9.0 is the official distribution of the instaparty": > The major problem with RedHat is installing packages. There is no "uprmi" > for RedHat. There is only up2date that requires payed subscription to RHN to > use.
Upgrading Redhat is not hard, and only saps need to pay for RHN ;) What I do, for example, is to "rsync" the latest upgrades from a certain server (I assume IGLU or something also can be used for this purpose - if not this situation can be fixed, I can tell you how) and then check the GPG signature on these updates and "rpm -F" them. I have a simple "nup2date" script to do this for me automatically: it looks something like this rsync --delete --max-delete=5 --delete-after --exclude ".in.*" \ --exclude "*.src.rpm" -avP servername:/directory/redhat-updates-9.0/ \ /usr/local/redhat-updates-9.0/ cd /usr/local/redhat-updates-9.0/ print "Checking signatures (this may take a few minutes):" # remember to install Redhat's public key before doing this: rpm --checksig $REGULARS |& grep -v "md5 gpg OK" && exit 1 BTW, I actually find it harder, not easier, to upgrade a Debian system on a day-to-day basis. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I have more experience with Redhat. But it certainly can't be said that it's trivial to upgrade Debian and impossible to upgrade Redhat. > Meir and Shachar - Please consider up2us[1] for the updates CD to help > with installing packages. As users will not be able to easily install > software themselves (due to Adir's descision) it's important to put ANY > useful software on the updates CD and ANY thinkable library. Also, put > -devel versions of everything to allow installation from source. In any case, it is important that all the errata that currently exist for Redhat 9 be installed on the new machines and you don't ask the users to do that on their own. Remember that many of the users will have modems, and downloading 500 MB (!!) of errata will take a bit of time (to say the least) for them. -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Sep 20 2003, 23 Elul 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |AAAAA: the American Association for the http://nadav.harel.org.il |Abolition of Abbreviations and Acronyms -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
