Re: [ILUG] Redhat upgrades...

From: David Malone (dwmalone at domain maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Thu 26 Sep 2002 - 16:05:03 IST


> Before PaulJ says it, use apt. It's available for Red Hat.

> Secondly, use up2date. You get one free registration, which you can, if
> you wish, manually transfer around a few different machines.

> Thirdly, just grab the RPMs into a directory, and do rpm -Fvh *.rpm. Not
> advised, but it works.

Ta, I'll look into these. I only need to be able to upgrade a master
machine 'cos I maintain the others using rdist.

> Fourthly, this is a FAQ on ILUG. It's come up several times in the last
> month. Please check the archives!

I did some searches using google on variations on "redhat remote
upgrade" but didn't actually turn anything useful up (though it
did find some ilug pages).

        David.



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