i won't let up2date run automagically on any of my systems, because I want
to know exactly what I'm downloading and installing.
I'm not so worried about the security of the packages, if they're coming
directly from Red Hat, but I definitely want to manually control which
packages I download/apply.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Bret Hughes wrote:
> I have had my first experience with up2date over the last day or so
> dinking with wolverine. Actually, my time was spent getting around it
>:) The interface seems to work pretty well, and the idea is probably
> sound for a lot of users although $5 US /month or what ever it is seems
> steep. ( I am speaking totally from ignorance and memory here, A very
> dangerous combination. I apologize to RedHat if this is incorrect)
>
> My concern is that due to the fact that I am a control freak and
> placeing the wellbeing even more in the hands of a third party is really
> scary to me. Especially since if you do anything to the box outside of
> up2date is does not know about it. Storing all the inforamtion at RH
> does not give me a warm and fuzzy either. How hard is it in a large
> very dynamic company that is trying to respond to very rapid changes in
> an already dynamic industry to screw up every now and then?
>
> Am I alone in this attitude? I certainly do not begrudge RedHat for
> providing a service that can be used by the masses and I hope every one
> of you subscribe so that the distribution keeps getting better, but
> I just don't feel comfortable not haveing any real idea what is going to
> happen when I type in up2date and trust that redhat still has all my
> data intact. I hate not having the time to read souce code and compie
> all my own rpms too but this approach seems to be an order of magnitude
> increase on the trust scale.
>
> I would like to hear comments from both pro and con since I am trully
> seeking other views here.
>
> Bret
>
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