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Re: yum vs. up2date?
From:
Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:59:20 -0500
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Michael,

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Michael Mansour wrote:

> 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.

What feature do you need?  

> 
> Michael.
> 
> 
> Michael.
> 
-Connie Sieh

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