(Fwd) Re: recommended tool to auto update rpms?

[der.hans]

Am 02. Nov, 2000 schwäzte Kevin Buettner so:

> I've been lurking on one of the public Red Hat lists which deals with
> Red Hat 7.  I think the message below answers several of the questions
> that folks on this list have had about Red Hat 7 in the past.
> 
> --- Forwarded mail from guinness-list@redhat.com
> 
> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:00:11 -0500
> From: Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>
> To: guinness-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: recommended tool to auto update rpms?
> 
> The Red Hat Network has a free level of service that allows you to
> download and instal updates.  Just use the "anonymous" registration
> through the GUI or commandline:
> 
> up2date -r -l
> 
> to list the updates that apply to your system, then:
> 
> up2date -r [list the packages you want do download here]
> 
> a future version of the command line interface will allow:
> 
> "up2date -r -u" which will download and install all the updated
> package that apply to your system.
> 
> This level will always be free.

Good to hear!

OK, now we have tools for 3 dists:

apt-get for debian
urpmi for Mandrake
up2date for RedHat

Any other tools to add to this list?

ciao,

der.hans
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