Hello all, Some thoughts on Redhat's package management and update procedures follow. Hopefully someone with Redhat is reading this list too.. I'm not counting on it though :) I have been administering Redhat boxes for over four years now. Recently I noticed that there's still one important component missing. I'd very much like to be able to select RPM's I want to install / want to get uninstalled by categories like in Redhat installer. I believe some of this (selecting/deselecting by Group defined in RPM, e.g. Applications/Archiving) is done in current X interfaces (text interface would be a huge plus), but still there are a couple of major functionality features to be considered. I'd like deselecting/selecting of RPM's by installer categories also (as read from RedHat/base/comps) or similar, self-defined file. This would be a great help for people that realize later on that they'd really need a web server, forgot to choose development packages in install, etc. No need for stupid re-installations or manual play with RPM's after that. Also, along the same lines.. an extension of above. I'd very much if the some parts of redhat installer was released as a normal userland program. You could do updates without booting and having to go through your partitions and cruft. Really neat; a little like with FreeBSD /stand/sysinstall. Also, creating a centralized summary of .rpmsave and .rpmnew changes would be a nice addition here; e.g. compare with the really powerful _script_ mergemaster from FreeBSD -- Redhat could use something like that. Updaters like AutoRPM do some of the above, but they can't handle situations where new packages appear / are renamed very well, not considering the usual hassle with .rpmsave .rpmnew etc. configuration files after such an exhaustive upgrade. I'd like your comments about this and perhaps suggestions for software I should check out to get at least some of this functionality. Regards, Pekka Savola -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
