RE: easiest way to keep a Redhat 9 box

["Raymer, Dan" <DRaymer () webmd net>]

another vote for Yum... much lighter than apt4rpm too and does a better job
of determining dependencies.

-----Original Message-----
From: David J. Bianco [mailto:bianco () jlab org]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:47 AM
To: caldcv () students fccj org
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: easiest way to keep a Redhat 9 box


Look for YUM (http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/).  This is quickly
becoming
the new standard for auto-updating Linux distributions.  It works almost
like
an overlay on top of your existing package management system (RPM in your
case).  It's quite good, and fairly easy to use.

        David

caldcv () students fccj org wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I just installed Redhat 9, and I'm some-what used to using Debian and
its wonderful apt-get command, however I noticed Redhat lacked such a
capability. However, they had the RHN (Redhat Network) option which costs
money.
>  
>  Is there a third-party piece of software that auto-updates a Redhat box?
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