On Sun, 5 May 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > 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.
And if you've got the Huzpa, why not provide up2date services as well? http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current/ -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= 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]
