I'm up for testing and docs. (have to brush up on my shell scripting b4 I
can help with code).
Carl Parrish
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, der.hans wrote:
> Am 13. Oct, 2000 schwäzte Eric Johnson so:
>
> > I just coded up the following to check for RH 6.2 updates; I've been
> > meaning to do this for a while.
> >
> > I'm sure this idea can be extended to get the latest updates from your
> > favorite mirror, etc. All I really wanted here was notification regarding
> > new security issues with 6.2.
> >
> > Yes Hans, I know Debian's apt-get is much more elegant than this :-)
>
> Ah, but functionality is king. If this finds out about security updates
> and assists in auto-installing them, then it's awesome :).
>
> > Any comments or suggestion, fire away.
>
> Maybe we take this and build apt-security-get for RedHat? We've got lots
> of people using RedHat in the LUG, so why not assist in building the
> better mousetrap, aka distribution?
>
> To those using RedHat: How about it? Are you willing to assist as your
> skills allow? This will need some coders, but also lots of testers as well
> as help with documentation? I'd think this would be easy.
>
> Is there a tool that will do dependency checking and grab
> dependencies? That's key to auto-install. "--nodeps" is a bad option in
> automagic tools.
>
> Thanks for the script Eric. I might even install RedHat again, so I can
> try it :).
>
> ciao,
>
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