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On 20/01/01 at 14:42 Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:27:04AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Michael Burger wrote:
>
>> > Not really. You'd be surprised just how well it works if you specify
>> > --nosig on the command line. <G>
>
>
>> The 'up2date' I have on my 6.2 box does not recognize the '--nosig'
>> option.
>
>> > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:08:14 +1100, Greg Wright wrote:
>> >
>> > >Does it not require money or a registration ? if yes still, then this
>may
>> > >be a problem, otherwise you could apply your beer theory, who knows,
>on a
>> > >Saturday night it may just work Ed ;-).
>
>
>> I went through all this with Redhat yesterday. 'up2date' will not work
>> without a valid authorization. IMO, 'up2date' should connect to
>> 'priority' ftp servers if you have authorization, and connect to
>> non-priority servers if you do not have authorization. At the very
>least,
>> 'up2date' should work for non-authorized accounts in the case of
updating
>> of software that have security or system threatening problems.
>
> Hmmm... Sounds like it's back to "autorpm" then...
>
> I agree, up2date needs to be able to access non-priority sites
>and mirror sites. At least autorpm can be configured to use just
>about any local, nfs, or ftp repository. Autorpm is on powertools.
>
As "Rusty" would say....... "Clearly there is only one thing to
do......Hack on up2date" :))
Autorpm I found to be as much hassle as doing most things manually, but
thats me, for now but, did you know that -F should work over FTP & HTTP
properly? I know RPM in the latest 3.x.x variety had Gordon M's Freshen
patch included, so making a local mirror that you could automate the update
process on "should" be trivial......I have a non finished script here I
started to make before I realised that Freshen was broken over FTP HTTP and
have not continued with it since....I should try to finish it if Freshen is
working in fact the way it should now (I cannot see any point in avoiding
the latest 3.x version of RPM now that 4.x "may" grow in popularity, it
looks like contributors files may be dropping of late though? the new
contrib directory appears pretty much empty on my local mirror.....)
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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