On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, John wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > up2date checks the Red Hat server for package information. It will happily > > skip downloading any updates if you point it to a directory containing > > the updated files. > That's no good. It goes against my bandwidth allocation, and prevents me > from benefiting from local mirrors that don't get charged against it. It only needs to retrieve the package listings/headers. I just ran it a few times on a number of machines - a total of 104.4kB downstream. > ... > Even so, there are currently _NO_ official RH mirrors on WAIX whereas > there are at least two Debian mirrors. ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/redhat/ May not be "official", but I believe it's on WAIX. > ... > I actually did try RHN when I was running (null). I wanted to get a list > of all possible updates, so I did an "install everything" (null) > install, registered, and then could never connect in order to get my > list of updates, and that despite trying repeatedly at short intervals > for a day or more. A day or more? IIRC, It didn't work for a few weeks. David. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
