On Wed, 7 May 2003, Cliff Kent wrote: > Wolf, > > >> ... download both APT and Synaptic ... << > > I keep hearing about this option. And my Debian loving friends will tell > me to go for it. > > But, I'm someplace between cautious and paranoid about the rpm's that I > install. Do these tools allow me to restrict the sources of software > downloads? You can limit the sources. The default listing for source is (in /etc/apt/sources.list) rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386 os updates freshrpms You could just change it to use just the redhat provided rpms and updates as: (assuming some check can be done wrt to checksum & redhat-signatures) rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386 os updates Satish