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Re: [PLUG] What am I missing about RPM?
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I just use red-carpet to update RH machines - works for me. (It works
on debian too, but only stable).
-- noah silva
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 19:18, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:07:50PM -0500, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> > I've heard that a lot of people stuck in your situation will create
> > their own RPM's from the source tarball.
>
> Strikes me that that sort of defeats the purpose of having a
> distro-managed set of packages. I mean, we are actually *paying* RH
> here ("we" being my employer). I don't think it's too much to ask
> for them to keep up with security updates and provide them in a way
> that I can use them. (I'd love to shown the error of my ways and
> that, in fact, RH is useable for this kind of thing, btw.)
>
> > I, too, moved away from RH for that reason, and I'm sorry I can't be of
> > any more help to you.
>
> No sweat. I know that I've seen lots of RPM discussion go past on
> PLUG, but I've ignored in the past, calm in my resolution never to
> use RH again. ::sigh::
>
> I'd go through the archives, but I'm still at work right now, when
> I'd much rather have gone home quite a while ago, and I thought
> that that email might spark a quick response I could use to fix
> things before I went home.
>
> Anyway, none of it matters much tonight, since I just hit ^D one too
> many times in the only xterm I still had X forwarded (via ssh) from
> the machine in question, and I'm really not interested in trudging
> over to the console to do the OpenSSH install right now, so screw
> it till the morning. Guess I'll go ahead and sift through the
> archives tonight, though.
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
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