Redhat ES Patches

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:24 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Redhat ES Patches
> 
> 
> Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > Ok, I've got an ES machine here at work.  I can't have it 
> contacting 
> > Redhats up2date server.  I want the patches, but I can't 
> easily just 
> > download all the latest updates, regardless of wether my 
> system needs 
> > them or not, so I can have my own distribution point of sorts.
> > 
> > Anyone have an easier way to get past this, rather than 
> individually 
> > download all 1100+ packages and sift through them finding the ones 
> > that are newer than the source media?  I mean.. having to 
> individually 
> > select each of those 1100+ packages for download is going to suck.
> 
> I hate to break it to you, but the only free updates 
> available for ES, AS, PW or EL are source RPMs.  If you want 
> binary updates, you must sign up for an update "entitlement" 
> and get them from Red Hat's site via up2date.
> 
> This is one of the reasons so many people flocked to Fedora Core.
> 
> Sorry.

I do have the entitlement.  So, I can get to the binaries.  The problem
is, if I don't use up2date, it seems I have to manually download each
patch and try to figure out which ones are newer.  A real pain, and
Redhat support laughed at me when I said, surely, there must be another
way.  :/