CentOS 5 x86_64 -- where is up2date?

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 23:16:07 PDT 2007


On 9/8/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >I'm pretty sure that up2date was replaced with yum.  Even if it
> >wasn't, why would you want to use up2date if you already have yum?
>
> To get a list of the most current versions of packages while
> creating a clean install server with all updates.  Perhaps
> there's a better way to do this that I don't know that's simpler
> than replacing the old packages in the CentOS directory with the
> most recent version.

Perhaps i'm just not understanding what you're trying to
accomplish,but why can't you just do a 'yum -y update' as part of the
kickstart post-install (or even add it to rc.local ?


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