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[Tim Fournet]

Check out Mandrake's urpmi project. Haven't done so myself yet, but as
soon as I get it built on RedHat, I will. 
<p>On 03 Jul 2001 15:09:45 -0700, John Hebert wrote:
<em>> 
<em>> --- Jerald Sheets <questy at captured.com> wrote:
<em>> <snip>
<em>> 
<em>> > I think that the Vendor can only go so far.  Let's
<em>> > say RH6.2 came out last
<em>> > week.  Let's say I (Computer Tech) have installed it
<em>> > say...100 times.  Now
<em>> > let's say after end-of-month securityportal has
<em>> > listed 20-30 bugs.  Is it my
<em>> > responsibility to update each of these 100 machines?
<em>> >  Is it RedHat's?
<em>> > Should either do it free?  We distributed that in
<em>> > good faith before any
<em>> > holes were found.  The holes were found in packages
<em>> > we didn't even write.
<em>> > We make patches available on our websites.  Are we
<em>> > legally or even morally
<em>> > bound to do more at no charge?
<em>> > 
<em>> > You're treading in dangerous waters here, guys.
<em>> 
<em>> oi vey.
<em>> 
<em>> Now I see why RedHat, M$ and others are putting so
<em>> much work into network delivered automated software
<em>> updates.
<em>> 
<em>> 'apt-get' via cron job to the rescue. :)
<em>> 
<em>> John
<em>> 
<em>> 
<em>> 
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