I use apt-get on my Red Hat servers that need auto updating. I dont trust RH Network. It has broken at least a dozen servers that I know of, none of them are mine of course. You can get a really great implimentation of apt-get for Red Hat at http://www.freshrpms.net.
-- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA Debian GNU/Linux Advocate, Window Maker Advocate President, Genesee County Linux Users Group IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],#windowmaker IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],#debian YIM: arthurjohnson AIM: bytor4232 ICQ: 31770438 On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > On Thu 06 Jun 02 15:45, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:48:15PM -0600, user list wrote: > > [snip] > > > > | The reasons I like [debian] are: > > | 1. apt-get > > > > [snip] > > > > | I'll note in passing that the first reason has lost some edge now > > | that RH 7.3 comes with apt-get and that there are ports to older RH > > | releases. > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Is apt-get on RH 7.3 actually usable? > > Red Hat isn't likely to seriously support apt-get. They're pushing > up2date, which updates your computer for you. It's free for the first > computer you sign up for, but there's a fee for additional computers. > > I tried up2date on one server. It never worked. It sometimes > downloaded the files I needed to update, sometimes died during the > download, kicking out an error message. Rarely were any of the new > packages installed. The install process usually died due to dependency > problems. > > Based on my experience with Red Hat's automated update process, I would > never trust it on a production server. > > Glen > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
