On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:27:04AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Michael Burger wrote:
> > Not really. You'd be surprised just how well it works if you specify
> > --nosig on the command line. <G>
> The 'up2date' I have on my 6.2 box does not recognize the '--nosig'
> option.
> > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:08:14 +1100, Greg Wright wrote:
> >
> > >Does it not require money or a registration ? if yes still, then this may
> > >be a problem, otherwise you could apply your beer theory, who knows, on a
> > >Saturday night it may just work Ed ;-).
> I went through all this with Redhat yesterday. 'up2date' will not work
> without a valid authorization. IMO, 'up2date' should connect to
> 'priority' ftp servers if you have authorization, and connect to
> non-priority servers if you do not have authorization. At the very least,
> 'up2date' should work for non-authorized accounts in the case of updating
> of software that have security or system threatening problems.
Hmmm... Sounds like it's back to "autorpm" then...
I agree, up2date needs to be able to access non-priority sites
and mirror sites. At least autorpm can be configured to use just
about any local, nfs, or ftp repository. Autorpm is on powertools.
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