Keep in mind an alternative to using RedHat's RHN Up2Date tool you can=20
mirror the RPM updates and make your own apt archive to apt-get from.=20
This way you get the joy of apt, and a local mirror all in one.

http://www.dragonsdawn.net/~gordon/red-hat-apt-repository-howto/

Actually there are several of these HOWTOs.  Just google "RedHat apt RPM=20
mirror"

Austin

PS - of course you don't have to mirror the apt archives.  You can just=20
use the public ones (freshrpms).

der.hans wrote:
> Am 25. Mar, 2003 schw=E4tzte Derek Neighbors so:
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>>I still dont see how people keep red hat up to date reasonably without
>>purchasing some service to make doing so reasonable.
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> That's fine as long as the security updates are easy to get at no cost.
> Personally, I think $40/year is pretty cheap for all the software we ha=
ve
> available :). Yes, I know, we have debian, we have easy updates, we get=
 them
> for no cost. Someone's paying for the bandwidth and the key is security
> updates, so if a company wants to charge for a download service and peo=
ple
> will pay that generally gives us more resources for Free Software
> development.
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>>I know people cry that Debian is stale, but if you know where to get
>>sources.list lines generally you can find bleeding edge everything.
>>http://www.apt-get.org is now around to help make people not in the kno=
w,
>>more informed on how to get current packaging while staying on the stab=
le
>>version of Debian.
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> Having to do this really cuts down on the beauty of apt for most people=
. I'm
> glad we can do it, but it's not something everyone should have to do. W=
e
> need a "mostly stable" dist :). testing usually is, but stability isn't=
 the
> goal of testing. testing is the goal of testing.
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> ciao,
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> der.hans