Another Alternative to Red Hat Update [LWN.net]

Another Alternative to Red Hat Update

Posted Mar 28, 2003 18:16 UTC (Fri) by jfranks (guest, #1213)
Parent article: Alternatives to Red Hat Update

Another alternative, which I prefer, is Autorpm. It is a command line tool designed to be used interactively or in a cron job, which can download and/or upgrade any updated rpm packages. You can aim it at redhat or one of the mirror sites and have it automatically check for and download updates. It will check the RH signature before saving them. You can then have local machines automatically update from the local respository you have created. We do this with about fifty workstations running 7.3 and 8.0. Essentially no intervention is required, but I have not trusted it to upgrade kernels.

Another Alternative to Red Hat Update

Posted Mar 29, 2003 11:26 UTC (Sat) by ahornby (guest, #3366) [Link]

apt4rpm also provides a command line interface (and you can run it from cron). I use both this and the synaptic GUI.

One other reason I like it is that it brings some convergence between Red Hat and Debian based distros. (apt was originally used over .debs, but is now available for both .debs and .rpms)

apt4rpm would make a great addition to the LSB :) That way whatever package system your distro uses the command line interface could be common apt-get commands.