On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:40:00 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote > 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. I will go take a look at them. This approach may very solve my needs for the next couple of years until things settle out. Thank you for your help. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
