Yeah Redhat has an update function. I think it even 
puts a puts an icon in the form of a symlink on the
desktop. Anywho, the program is called "up2date" and
once you register the machine with the red hat network
you can then use up2date to upgrade whatever needs it
including the kernel. You can also use Ximian
Redcarpet
and that'll keep you updated with stuff like Mozilla
and Openoffice.org with very little fuss.


--- Victor Odhner <vodhner@cox.net> wrote:
> > Doesnt RH have an UPDATE function ...
> 
> I used the RH 7.3 install, and it allowed me to
> choose
> which packages would be included, but it seemed to
> be unconditionally an "install" rather than an
> "update".
> 
> > These are pretty Spartan server machines with no
> gui
> > and a defined list of packages.  And I would like
> to
> > limit downtime.  Is there any merit to manually
> > updating all packages?
> 
> I don't know exactly how you would do this, but it
> sounds like a better approach for servers since
> you could skip most of the downtime.
> 
> Doesn't RPM have a "trial" mode that allows you to
> just test what dependencies you are going to run
> into?
> 
> Vic
>
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