[NTLUG:Discuss] alternatives to MS for the end-user....

[Rev. wRy]

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 12:44, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
>
> With the Red Carpet Installer, you 'subscribe' to 'channels'. 
> There is a Ximian, Redhat 3.7, OpenOffice, etc channel. Any 
> updates or security packages or new packages, etc are offered
> when you run RedCarpet and you can choose to install them or
> not. 

> Anyway... that's me speil on Ximian. I think it's pretty 
> slick and I'm a hard sell. 

Couple of things to keep in mind:

1) There is no command line for Red Carpet, so updating via a cron job
is not an option like it is for up2date (RedHat).

2) If you use up2date *and* Red Carpet, you can and probably will screw
up your system.  A simple way around this is a command like the
following:

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{VENDOR}\n" | awk '$2 ~ /Ximian/ {print
$1}' |sort | perl -pe 's/\n/;/' > ximian.list

cut and paste the contents of ximian.list into (on my RH 7.2 system)
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date in the section pkgSkipList.

This will prevent any of the ximian packages from being installed via a
cron job that runs up2date.

> jack 

Ry