On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Piotr Goczal wrote: > > Use autorpm (www.autorpm.org)! In my opinion it's much much better > > then up2date... > > Hmmmm. A good suggestion, though it runs afoul of the *other* > consideration I was hoping we had settled when choosing Red Hat, and that > was to have as much as possible a 'standard' uncustomized installation, > with as few extra downloads as possible. In theory, it would be perfect to > install 'standard' Fedora/RH from the disks then run the standard > 'up2date' and be done, though I've noticed that the packages are so far > behind that I had to download the new 'spamassassin' to have that filter > work effectively.... :-) If you want to use up2date, try http://current.tigris.org/ Current is an open-source implementation of an up2date server. I use it at many servers. it really works :) .... in my opinion up2date have solved dependencies and migrating to upper channels much better than autorpm :)) J.
