I've been lurking on one of the public Red Hat lists which deals with
Red Hat 7.  I think the message below answers several of the questions
that folks on this list have had about Red Hat 7 in the past.

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:00:11 -0500
From: Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>
To: guinness-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: recommended tool to auto update rpms?

The Red Hat Network has a free level of service that allows you to
download and instal updates.  Just use the "anonymous" registration
through the GUI or commandline:

up2date -r -l

to list the updates that apply to your system, then:

up2date -r [list the packages you want do download here]

a future version of the command line interface will allow:

"up2date -r -u" which will download and install all the updated
package that apply to your system.

This level will always be free.

Matt

On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 04:35:54PM -0500, Heitzso wrote:
> I guess I'm spoiled, but I'ld assume that
> a free version of what I'm looking for would
> be available, since both Helix and Debian
> offer smooth-clean update mechanisms.
> 
> While RedHat Network might provide this,
> it's a $ service.
> 
> Let add a rider to my original question ...
> what's the official plebian/free way
> to auto-update a RH's RPMs?
> 
> Heitzso
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakob Siguršsson [mailto:jakobs@simnet.is]
> 
> Doesn“t the Redhat Network do just this?
> http://www.redhat.com/products/network
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: guinness-list-admin@redhat.com
> [mailto:guinness-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Heitzso
> Subject: recommended tool to auto update rpms?
> 
> 
> I had been using autorpm but it stopped working for
> me about a month ago.  I might have touched a config
> file wrong though I don't recall doing anything back
> when it last caught a RedHat update.  This morning
> I spent an hour mucking with it's config files,
> trying to run it in debug mode, etc. and debug isn't
> showing it ever getting close to my redhat update
> configuration.
> 
> I then tried to use gnorpm to show me out of date
> packages (btw, I know they exist because I double
> checked against rpmfind's site that was the only
> site in my autorpm pool for redhat updates and
> there are quite a few updated packages that I should
> be installing) but couldn't figure out where the
> gnorpm color coding was supposed to occur, etc.
> In any case, scanning 500 or a 1000 packages in
> the gnorpm hierarchy looking for out-of-date
> packages is not appealing.  What gnorpm needs
> is a single button to spit out a list of updated
> packages and then let you choose the ones to
> install.
> 
> I use Helix update on my RH system and rejoice.
> 
> I have Debian on two other systems here and, while
> it's not always the smoothest process, I still
> rejoice over apt-get, dselect, et al.
> 
> MY QUESTION:  What is the 'official' recommended
> mechanism to easily flag and download/install
> upgraded packages?
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