Yum updates, cyber goats or Ximian?
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Aug 27 14:57:43 UTC 2004
> There I was thinking "Linux is easy," basking in the free lunch of
> Redhat's up2date service. One click and I got all my "rpms"
> without knowing what rpm stood for.
>
> Then along came "EOL" (death in other words?) and, even with
> everyone's kind advice, I feel as if I am in this (recommended)
> http://www.heinemann.es/MEDIA/switchlinux3.swf
>
> My Redhat 9 server still runs but, cyber goats!
> The prospect of updating it seems so complicated.
>
> I have a Redhat refugee aquaitance that recommends
> http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/update.html
> or even
> http://www.suse.com/
> Anything wrong with going down that path? Is it apt?
>
> Yum yum?
To be honest, the gpg key process in rhl 7.3 (and in general rpm 4.0.4)
pretty much sucked.
I think you'll find some of it vastly improved for rhl9.
-sv
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