Will verify PGP keys (though I have heard of a problem with the verification). Will report to you what was done. that's it, more or less.
On the other hand - Will not let you choose where to get the updates from (+3rd party packages not supported) Will send the entire config to redhat. Requires subscription (even if it's free, at the moment). Adi Stav wrote: >On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:26:52PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >>Difference between RedHat and Debian update systems are not really >>technological. At least not the important details. I think redhat's >>system is a bit better technologically wise, BTW. >> >>The problem is that you cannot leave your system to automatically run >>up2date, and be sure everything is ok. I have had a system become really >>really unstable as a result of running up2date regularily on it (RedHat >>7.1, not server). >> >>On the other hand, I have a system running Debian Potato, and doing >>apt-get dist-upgrade to keep it up to date, and while updates are very >>scarce, I have yet to see a security problem go unpatched for more than >>a few days, and no noticable ill effects (as well as using the same >>mechanism at home for desktop computers). >> >>So, while redhat's up2date may be slightly supirior technologically wise >>(and I am not even sure about that - you are sending your entire >>system's config for safe-keeping on RedHat's systems), Debian careful >>updates policy is unmatched. Only flaw I found was that their habbit of >>backporting security patches means that security scanners give false >>positives. >> > >What do you mean by "technologically superior"? > >================================================================= >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
