Redhat to Fedora - up2date/RHN

[jkad]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Piotr Goczal wrote:
> > Use autorpm (www.autorpm.org)! In my opinion it's much much better
> > then up2date...
>
> Hmmmm. A good suggestion, though it runs afoul of the *other*
> consideration I was hoping we had settled when choosing Red Hat, and that
> was to have as much as possible a 'standard' uncustomized installation,
> with as few extra downloads as possible. In theory, it would be perfect to
> install 'standard' Fedora/RH from the disks then run the standard
> 'up2date' and be done, though I've noticed that the packages are so far
> behind that I had to download the new 'spamassassin' to have that filter
> work effectively.... :-)

If you want to use up2date, try http://current.tigris.org/
Current is an open-source implementation of an up2date server.
I use it at many servers. it really works :)
.... in  my opinion up2date have solved dependencies and migrating to upper
channels much better than autorpm :))

J.