[WBEL-users] errata question

[donavan nelson]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:46:12 -0500, jcosta wrote
> I was under the impression that you had to pay RH to use up2date to get
> security errata and bugfixes for RHEL. Does RH provide those same errata
> and bugfixes in SRPM form? If so, is updating as "simple" as doing

Redhat supplies errata, etc. as SRPMs

> something like this:
> 
> rpm -qi foo
> rpm -i foo-1.0-1.src.rpm
> rpm -ba SPECS/foo.spec
> rpm -ivh foo-1.0-1.rpm

or if you are running WBEL, up2date (or yum at the command line, I think).

> If this is necessary, will it negate using Yum, apt-get, or up2date? 
> I don't want to have my server maintenance workload increase by 
> using WBL. Apologies if this question has been asked and answered,
> but I could not find any concrete answer in the mailing list archives.

You maintenance is very much like using a RHEL box (not setup for automatic
updates).  run up2date.  Using WBEL binary RPMs gets you WBEL signed packages
(which could mean something to the next maintainer of your boxes.

> PS:  In the absence of a search tool for the archives, you can use Google
> to search the archive with this syntax:   <keyword>
> site:<beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/>

I thought John said there were search tools for the archive.  Hummm.

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