Re: [PLUG] The Redhat Free Update Ride is ending

[Chris Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

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On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Paul wrote:

> I've never used up2date.  Recently I've tried apt-rpm.  That works 
> well and it seems to be free.  I'm curious about how apt-rpm works, 
> what it's limitations are, and how it compares to up2date.

I had the joy of doing a lot of consulting work for a cheapskate shop.  
That is, a shop where they wouldn't spend money up front on things and 
end up paying for it later in hidden costs down the road (i.e. higher 
human resources costs).  One of the things that worked relatively well 
was the use of apt-rpm instead of rhn/up2date.

But if you have a couple dozen or so Linux servers in your stable, 
having the rhn gui in front of you is a decent tool for managing your 
packages & errata.  I think the tool could be oh so much more than it 
is but I'm happy for the most part with what they already have.

Chris Hedemark
PGP/GnuPG Public Key at http://yonderway.com/chris/hedemark.gpg
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