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Re: yum vs. up2date?
From:
Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:04:40 +1000
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Hi Connie,

> > root@radon# up2date -l
> > 
> > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: scientific-base...
> > 
> > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: scientific-errata...
> > 
> > Fetching rpm headers...
> > ########################################
> > 
> > Name                                    Version        Rel
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > cvs                                     1.11.17        7.RHEL4           i386
> > devhelp                                 0.9.2          2.4.4             i386
> > mozilla-nspr                            1.7.7          1.4.2             i
> >
> 
> We  only made this to work for the case were up2date got turned on 
> by default to handle the "automatic" update.  We did not want it 
> trying to contact redhat.
> 
> -Connie Sieh

I'm starting to look at:

http://current.tigris.org/

which seems to make use of up2date but without the restrictions of using the
RHN network. It seems to facilitate my need to update multiple systems.

Michael.


Michael.

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