On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 06:53, juaid wrote: > > I see that with apt I could build my own repository, and make local upgrades > easily from that repository, so that's an advantage...
And not one to be scoffed at. Apt uses standard HTTP (or ftp, or local file access...), and it's a lot less likely to fail due to congestion than up2date. The up2date servers are sometimes too busy to allow access from clients, delaying users from security upgrades. That's no good... Also consider the utility of your own modules in the apt repository. You can package software that you use regularly, and easily install or update it on all of the machines that use it. Apt also allows you to use more than one repository simultaniously. You can configure it to get Red Hat's packages from one site, add ons from freshrpms.net, rhythmbox updates from their site, etc... It's all in one config, and "apt-get upgrade" can update all of the packages you have installed, from all of those sites, in one go. You can also upgrade from one version of the distro to another using apt; it's not easy to do so with up2date, and up2date's certainly not designed to do so. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
