On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:02:54PM -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> > I thought this was going to be equivalent to Mandrake's update, where it can
> > check mirrors that you specify for the updates. But I emailed redhat about this
> > and they wrote me back saying that you must have a user ID and password to use
> > it, and those are only distributed with the Boxed version of redhat.
> >
> > Call me crazy, but isn't this a bit of a crock? Why not do it free like
> > mandrake?
>
> I suppose it's supposed to one of those value added thingies you get
> for supporting RH and buying the official version, like the
> installation guide, etc.
>
> While I do buy the official version, I see this as a newbie feature
> like the second manual that came with 6.0. With the watch-list and a
> good mirror, this really is not that big a deal, IMO. .02
Actually, you can connect to the server and get the list of packages
to be upgraded, it's just that the download links won't quite work. And
so you can see _what_ upgrades are available, even though you can't
quite download them. So, for example, I see I need to upgrade lpr, so
I go pull the update with my ftp client.
Using the priority servers is a perk. It makes perfect sense;
basically, the people who pay get access to servers with lots of
bandwidth for updates -- it's part of the whole paying for support bit.
Those who just download it from their local redhat mirror can continue
to do the same for the updates.
Jeremy
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