Subject: Re: Is there a Red Hat "up2date" equivalent???
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 06:33:14 AKST
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 16:11, Scott Johnson wrote:
> Now that RH is going paid only, I'm looking for a new distro.
>
> The biggest reason I love(d) RH to begin with was it's "up2date" service
> that I could set as a daily cron job to make sure my system automatically
> downloaded and installed any applicable patches for my box.
>
> Question: Is there any alternative/equivalent service on a different
> distro that is free? I'm trying not to turn the thread into a distro
> war, hence this specific question.
>
> TIA!
>
> Scott
There is 'APT'. It started out as a Debian tool but it has been ported
to do RPM's also. I know it is availale for Connectiva, the company that
did the original port to RPM, SuSe, and I think Redhat/Fedora can use it
as well.
Greg Madden
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