On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:32:28 -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:41:38 -0500, Doug Potter wrote > > > Have your students set up "apt-get". With this you can get free > > updates. They can set up a cron job, to get the updated packages > > and install. > > Then I would just continue to use RH 9 and use apt-get? Can one depend on > freshrpms to stay current with the necessary RH rpms? Would Fedora Legacy be > an option? freshrpms.net or any mirror of updates.redhat.com, provided it supports APT. If it doesn't, you can still mirror the packages and create a local repository. > What would it take to set up my classroom server as a repository for the > updates that the students need and then let them get them from my server? Wouldn't take much. A Yum repository is even easier to set up than an APT repository (well, at least last time I looked at it). All you'd need is to run "yum-arch ." in an ftp/http directory, which contains the packages, and that would turn it into a Yum repository. --
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