I've actually never played with apt on Red Hat...but I have done a lot of apt with Debian, and obviously a lot of up2date on red hat.
The main difference is that with up2date you're limited to one computer (per email address I guess) and unless you pay money to Red Hat you have to wait until the server isn't at peak load. Which I think is more than fair... That said, if you don't have the budget to pay red hat, apt can alleviate you if that. You can, by the way make your own local repositor by using the program current http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current/ which is a reverse engineered server program that interacts with your copy of up2date. If you're going to go down that route, using apt (which uses just an ftp or http server and some tools to make the apt repository) is probably a more robust and tried solution than using current. But current might be good if everyone is already using up2date. Apt does probably have some other advantages over up2date from a flexibility standpoint, but you may or may not ever use them (for example I setup pinning on my Debian server the other day, so it would track the updates for mailman from the Debian testing distribution, but everything else would be kept up to date with the regular Debian distribution. You could probably do the same thing if you were say running 8.0, and didn't want to upgrade everything. Then when 8.1 came out if you wanted to use the latest version of x program, you could probably pin to track those updates, and its requirements.) In the end though, Red Hat does deserve support for the generally great products they make though... -Sam On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:36:44PM -0300, juaid wrote: > From: "Bryan Liles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > apt-get -d install <pkg> > > that's cool then... > > but nobody has answered if you see any advantages from one or the other, > besides the fact that with apt you can make a local repository... > > thanks again, > > juaid > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Sam Ockman, Chairman and CEO Tel: 415-358-2600 Fax: 415-896-6742 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN Penguin Computing - The World's Most Reliable Linux Systems www.penguincomputing.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
