On Sun, May 05, 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: mozilla's recent hole": > up2date requires registration (unlike redhat itself). Does this pose any > technical problems?
Anybody with half-decent programming skills can program something that daily mirror's or rsync's Redhat's updates, checks their gpg signatures, and then either apply them automatically or apply them by hand once in a while (I do the latter). If you don't want to take bandwidth from Redhat without paying them anything, consider doing this from a mirror, not from Redhat's original site. Redhat's signature on the RPM will let you verify that you're not installing trojan updates, even if you don't fully trust the mirror (of course, the mirror can hide certain important updates from you if they want, or "replay" old updates... Oh, well...). With an anonymous rsync server (like iglu.org.il) it's probably possible to get the latest updates like this in 3 lines of shell. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, May 5 2002, 23 Iyyar 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Sign in pool: "Welcome to our OOL. Notice http://nadav.harel.org.il |there is no P, please keep it that way." ================================================================= 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]
