Hello,
I apoligize for what may be a newbie question---I'm fairly new to RedHat,
but not to linux. I've looked around for a script which will apply all
the errata files to my current distribution (RH5.0). Basically, I'd like
something similar to the initial install, but which runs on an existing
system.
The script would do this:
1) check the ftp site for errata RPM's
2) compare against the existing RPM database
3) automagically upgrade all packages for which there is an errata RPM
available.
I know I could do this manually, but there are getting to be a large
number or RPM's in the errata archive, and I'm lazy.
Since I have a direct network connection, what would be really nice is to
be able to put this script in the weekly crontab, so that I'd never have
to worry about upgrading again--all the latest security patches, etc.
would automagically be installed as they become available.
Is there such a beast available? I've looked around a bit, but haven't
been able to come up with anything better than doing it manually. It
seems that with the ease of use of the rest of RedHat, that there should
be something like this out there.
Thanks!
Jon
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