[TriLUG] Re: up2date

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:40, Steve Thorpe wrote:

> Dear Jeff an other TriLUGgers,
> 
> Noticed the posting about up2date and thought I would add
> my $.02 worth... personally I prefer to put the new rpms
> on at my own discretion (using "rpm -Fvh" or "rpm -ivh")
> so I control exactly which rpms go on there, and when.
> However it was a continual drag to have to wait a LOOOONG
> time to download the RPMs from the Red Hat site.  My 
> solution was a home grown alternative to up2date. I wrote
> a simple script which I run as a cron job prior to each 
> work day, with the following cron tab entry:

Might I suggest another way. :-)  Since Conectiva has ported
apt to use rpm, and people have setup redhat apt repositories,
you can just go to http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/, download and
install apt for rpm and point it to their 7.2 updates repository
(they also appear to have 6.2).  Then, I believe, you should just
be able to do

# apt-get update
# apt-get check
# apt-get upgrade

And it will download and install the latest updates
for you.  In addition, suppose you find you didn't
install a particular package you now want, just do

# apt-get install <package name>

and it will automatically download and install it.

This works very well, and I wish redhat would
use apt themselves directly...

Tanner Lovelace