Hi All, Well, tonight I needed to do some massive upgrading my other machine from Redhat 6.2 to 7.2, so I upgraded with the CD's and then I decided that those debian guys are too "spoiled" and there must be a better solution to do massive upgrades, specially to server farms and lots of workstations (I know about Aduva Manager, but it doesn't support RH 7.2 yet, at least according to the site).
So, I played with ... apt4rpm - you can get it from: http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/ (there are binaries for RH 7.2 and 6.2).. The idea is basically almost the same with debian, but without the dselect function. After playing with it a bit I'm happy to say that it works very well without any problem. I tried apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-update and didn't have any problem - just like debian. So it might worth using it if you got lots of RH linux workstations & servers. A simple weekly cron job should do the major upgrade (don't forget to create a local mirror! scripts are at the above web site to create a mirror) for your machines and your life could be a lot easier (think about upgrading GNOME or KDE to all developers). Of course - Aduva Aduvizor & Director solution is far and beyond about this solution and it's MUCH more flexible, with a good GUI, and an excellent managment solution, so when it supports RH 7.2 - please give it a whirl ;) Thanks, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
