On Fri, Dec 06, 2002, Ingo T. Storm wrote:
> I am very new to openpkg and I have one conceptual question to start with:
>
> For my RedHat boxes (alpha, i386, sparc) I use one "current" server as
> a replacement for the RedHat Network, so that I can keep my boxes up to
> date automatically - included my custom rpms . Has anyone ventured to
> see if rhn_register and up2date could be ported to openpkg rpm, so that
> a "current" server could be use for openpkg instances, too?
>
> Or is there any other means to have an openpgk instance check
> automatically if binary updates for the installed packages are available
> on a central distribution server? I'd rather not have a compiler on all
> my solaris9 systems where I inted to use openpkg.
For OpenPKG-CURRENT there is since recently an "openpkg-tool" package
which provides neat "openpkg build" command allowing you to upgrade
an OpenPKG-CURRENT instance to the latest package versions by running
"openpkg build -Ua | sh". Give it a try...
Ralf S. Engelschall
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