One option is to set up a proxy, make the update on one machine and then all the others will use the proxy cached files.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Beni Cherniavsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Behdad Esfahbod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: Re: Dream Distribution > Behdad Esfahbod wrote on 2003-10-30: > > > Fedora Core 1 would be released November 3rd. Fedora is the Red > > Hat renamed. http://fedora.redhat.com/ > > > > Can be updated by both yum and apt-rpm. > > > Which one is better? I'd like to update my 3 computers at home, so I > want to setup some kind of local mirror of the latest RPMs (or > anything that will avoid downloading them thrice). How easy is that > with yum vs. apt-rpm? > > More important, can I set up either of them to update from sites that > don't support them directly? I currently use many third-party > packages. If not, how good is the repository coverage for them? > > An ability to burn a snapshot of the latest RPMs to bring to somebody > would be nice too. I tried installing Debian recently (shooting for > unstable) and was disappointed to find I should install an year-old > debian and update from there (I installed on a laptop where the old > kernel didn't work with the PCMCIA network card, complicating the > upgrade process infinitely). I like the attitude of debian unstable > (or any other bleeding-edge distro) but they seem to have the > disappointing attitude that the installer should only be released once > in 1.5 years (there were contibuted weekly builds of recent CDs but > they were unbootable)... I want some distro where I have a > bleeding-edge installation easily preparable at any point of time. > > -- > Beni Cherniavsky <[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] > > ================================================================= 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]
