RedHat Network redux

[sinck@ugive.com]

\_ 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 :).

Well, it depends on the level of autoinstalling there is.  Do you
really want some script *hopefully* not bungling your sendmail config
on the way by?  Your kernel?  Personally, I'd want an option that said
"prep everything, then send email with suspected degree of brokenness
if just launched".

\_ 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.

I think prolly wiring up a perl script to watch rpm --dryrun or
something would be sufficient to catch dependencies and go on.
Although, in theory, if you have the package already installed you
have the dependencies already.  [Excepting raw-ware when they split a
project into pieces....]

David