Re: Bypassing Up2Date

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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Price Technology wrote:

> More or less anyway.
> 
> Question for the official Red Hat folks who browse the list from time to time.  
> I normally run up2date to keep my system updated, but between the kernel 
> update and the beta release it's been some days since I was able to run it.  
> (I'm using a demo account right now as health reasons won't allow me to 
> afford a subscription at this time)
> 
> I'm downloading the latest errata from my friendly neighborhood mirror and 
> will copy it to /var/spool/up2date once I get it all here.  I know up2date 
> will gladly digest it when done that way, but what if up2date won't run due 
> to server load ??
> 
> If I install the update manually, will up2date recognize that they've been 
> installed without "going through the motions" ??

Don't know but you might want to get yum and use it to keep the system updated.
FWIW yum recently showed up in rawhide. Don;t know if that version will work
with shrike or not but you can get shrike rpms from the http://linux.duke.edu/yum/
The official home of yum. :-) 

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..............Tom


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