On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:46, Terry Collins wrote: > John Ferlito wrote: > > Yes but why would I use a system where I have to either > > > > a) register on a website to setup a "Demo" account which expires every > > 2 months unless I fill in a survey. Ever tried doing this if you are > > managing 5+ machines. It's a bit of a pain.
Asides from what Terry's pointed out, you do have alternatives. You can simply point rpm -Fvh at Planetmirror, or your local mirror of another Red Hat update site. Since all the dependencies will be in the same dirs, and `-F' will only install what's needed. Or you can maintain a urpmi or apt repository, which if you're using 5 machines anyway, you'd probably already have to aid the deployment of custom packages. We've done that before at Cyber for desktops and it works very well. Mike -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
