On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 14:12, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Emmanuel Seyman writes: > >On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 02:42:27PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > >> > >> Tried that. It doesn't work - keeps dying part way through, saying > >> that I need authorization. It's only good for one box, anyway. > > > >up2date isn't the only way to update your system. > >You can also download the updates from a mirror near you and > >apply them yourself. > > Yup. And I can write my own cron job to daily check the updates site, compare > it with installed rpms, and alert me to what I need to update.
How's this for a script? #!/bin/sh rpm -ivh \ http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/enigma/apt/apt-0.3.19cnc55-fr7.i386.rpm cat > /etc/cron.daily/apt-upgrade <<EOF #!/bin/sh apt-get update >/dev/null 2>&1 apt-get upgrade -S | grep ' from ' EOF chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/apt-upgrade /etc/cron.daily/apt-upgrade ######## Installs apt, and sets it up to email you every day if there are updates. All you have to do is log in and run: apt-get upgrade If you want less involvement, just run 'apt-get upgrade' in the script. : )
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