On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:24:54PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > That's actually a common misconception. I can't believe I'm defending > redhat, but the up2date tool has been around since 6.1, and it doesn't > cost anything. What does cost money is priority ftp access, without > which you'll be hard-pressed to find a mirror that isn't overloaded > anytime other than the wee hours of the morning. > > That said, up2date is *nothing* like apt. All it does it update rpms > that you already have installed with security fixes. There is no > capability in it to automagically install packages ala apt, nor is there > no upgrade to later version option either (which debian offers through > testing and unstable). up2date is also a pretty big resource hog for > just being an updater. It also makes remote updating virtually > impossible over a slow link, as AFAIK, it is a GUI (X) only tool.
Get out of X and run it. It's also a command-line tool. I'm forced to use it at work and we do not pay for any kind of support nor do we run X on any of the servers. > All in all, I wasn't very impressed with it, other distributions have > had similar tools for a few years now (MandrakeUpdate comes to mind), > and none of them come close the capability of apt. As to security, it's > not just tools. Debian has a pretty good record of responding to > security holes extremely quickly, while Redhat can somtimes (not always) > drag their feet a bit. Debian also sets you up *much* more secure by > default than Redhat, which last time I installed 7, managed to installed > every service that existed by default (tftp even!). I'm not impressed with up2date either, but it's better than having insecure machines. My biggest beef with it is that I have to have all sorts of Python run-time crap on my production machines for no other reason than to support that silly script. It should have been a binary. -- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
