RE: RE: [Nolug] Missing the point (Re: updating a RedHat box)

From: -ray <ray_at_ops.selu.edu>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 13:34:22 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305171320500.8614-100000@romulus.csd.selu.edu>

Just mirror a redhat updates site to a local ftp or nfs server. When you
want to update everything, just pull down the rpms, and rpm -Fvh *.rpm.
I normally do the kernel*.rpm's separately.

i don't trust redhat, or any vendor, to decide what needs to be updated on
my box. and if someone hacks RHN....well... not likely, but certainly
possible.

-ray

On Sat, 17 May 2003, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:

> I was actually referring to the ability to keep them up to date (up2date...
> ok bad pun). RHN makes it really easy and it can be another offered service,
> but if you don't have RHN it's a total pain in the ass to reregister and
> update it every x days. My systems are all updated every time there is a
> published errata and I never need to log onto the systems.

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