[NBLUG/talk] Push Methods

[Mark Street]

It's not push but I am telling you... for Red Hat yum is one little kickass 
proggie, it runs as a service/cron job if you want...  Silently keeping your 
boxes up-to-date without a burp.  If there is a burp you get an E-mail from 
the cronjob.

Features include: 
Multiple Repositories
Simple config file
Correct dependency calculation
Fast operation
rpm-consistent behavior
comps.xml group support, including multiple repository groups
Simple interface

http://www.linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

On one of my Red Hat 8/Ximian2 Desktop boxen I run all 3 biggies, Red Carpet, 
apt and yum.  Yeah....  I know enough about getting them to play nice that I 
haven't been burned...

I really think you should give yum a look.

Also take a look at the fedora project...  It is slowly taking shape, 
combination of apt and yum.  I took another gander at it yesterday but I 
haven't taken a bite yet.

http://www.fedora.us/

RPM's are hell, apt is far superior..... but until we all switch to gentoo, 
Slack or FreeBSD we have to work with what is in front of us. 

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 18:42, Warren Raquel wrote:
> What are the more useful and prevalent push methods for keeping multiple
> Linux machines updated (I thinking RedHat specific but any distro would
> work)

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