[svlug] Re: A Note on tar in RedHat 4.2 (BUG!)

David Mandala davidm at them.com
Wed Oct 7 11:30:05 PDT 1998


I am quite confused by your statement. One of the reasons I use RedHat is
the easy of which remote installs and upgrades can be done. Can you further
elaborate? I maintain several remote systems with little to no problems.

David Mandala

Quoting George Bonser (grep at shorelink.com):
> On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, David L. Sifry wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, redhat has not updated their 4.2 rpms, and the 5.1 SRPM
> > (which fixes the bug) needs a new version of RPM to install it.
> > 
> 
> One of the main reasons I don't use Red Hat ... upgrades are a BEAR
> particularly if it is a remote systems and you do not have physical access
> to it.  Debian is a breeze for remote upgrades.
> 
> 
> George Bonser
> 
> The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near you!
> 
> 
> 
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