Bring it back to my question from a few weeks back...that was, how to keep a Penguin farm, under the same set of updates:
When I did the YOU updates to one of the images a few weeks ago, I saved the RPMs instead of deleting them. So, it seems to me that if I mounted that disk in r/o mode for other images, I should be able to run rpm from that directory, and have that image brought up to the same maintenance level as the base image...right?
Having the maintenance hid behind panels is sure easy. Just sure would like to understand how all of this is put together.
Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
John Summerfield wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, David Goodenough wrote:
I did not know that about rpm, thats obviously new since I last used it.
Then it must be a very long time indeed since you used rpm. I don't ever remember it being a new feature, and I've been using RHL since 3.0.3.
But of course with apt-get you only say apt-get install funny-package and it will find the relevant version for your architecture and distribution, and download it and any dependancies that are currently not installed (or need upgrading).
As someone else observed, rpm is equivalent to dpkg. The Red Hat equivalent to apt-get is up2date, and there's only one official up2date server in the world (but see a package called "current" for a reverse-engineered equivalent). up2date uses Red Hat's Red Hat Network/Red Hat Enterprise Network, and you must be registered (and preferably paid up) in order to use it.
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Cheers John.
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