On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, Chris Abbey wrote:
> At 16:58 10/1/99 +0200, Benno Senoner wrote:
> [...]
> >comments ?
>
> none that haven't already been said... I can't emphasis enought the point
> that others mention: if a company has that many Linux (or any form of *nix)
> boxen then they must have a competent admin group, and that group will use
> the tools available AutoRPM is one, there are others. This is not the
> problem that the hacks (in the journalistic sense) at pcweek online make
> it out to be. Remember that these guys work for Ziff-Davis. . . .
>
Agreed, but it would be nice to provide a way for the unexperienced user too.
maybe taking some ideas from mandrake ?
(....)
>
> They use installp... we use RPM... what's the difference?
>
> >PS: I heard that RH 6.1 will have some upgrading features over the internet,
> >could someone tell us more about this ?
>
> rpm -Uhv ftp://yourFavorite.mirrorOf.RedHat/errata/path/foo1.2.3-4.i386.rpm
put you in the "joe average user" case:
it would be nice a few dialogs which would automate the whole task,
informing you which packages need to be updated urgently (exploitable code),
which packages do have lower priorities ( a new version of gimp etc.)
regards,
Benno.
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