distribution and update conventions and methods

Erik Williamson erik at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Fri Oct 24 15:30:34 UTC 2003


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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e r i k   w i l l i a m s o n                     erik at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
  system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary





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