Re: distribution and update conventions and methods

[Erik Williamson]

I'm not sure about your first question, but for your last,  I've got a 
bit of a bias here - I've been using yum to manage 150+ 
servers/workstations for a few years now, and WOW, is life good.  I 
highly recommend it.   The yum mailing list is also very helpful.

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

Cheers,
e.

Christians, Stefan Mr. wrote:
>  I am a bit confused ...
>  
>  1) Conventions
>  
>  Will Fedora Core be available on traditional RedHat mirrors?
>  
>  Will Fedora core be available on ftp://$mirror/pub/fedora/$release, or
>  something like that?
>  
>  Will updates to Fedora Core be available on
>  ftp://$mirror/pub/fedora/updates/$release, or something like that?
>  
>  
>  
>  2) Method for keeping up to date
>  
>  a) what I used to do:
>  - I did not want to use RedHat Network
>  - I did not want to use the red, green and blue arrows on the panel
>  - every night a local server would download newest updates and errata
>  from a RedHat mirror
>  - every time a workstation booted into runlevel 5, a startup script
>  would update all normal rpms from the local server
>  - every time the workstation shut down or rebooted, a shutdown script
>  would update special rpms like kernel or glibc from the local server
>  
>  
>  b) what should I do from now on?
>  
>  But now I have read so much interesting stuff about apt, yum and up2date
>  in this mailing list. Do I understand it correctly that I just have to
>  run one of these programs without further configuration and the system
>  will be fully updated. It would be too good to be true.
>  
>  Any recommendations from somebody who has already used these tools how
>  to keep a system updated automatically without user intervention?
>  
>   
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