[plug] forcing RH's "up2date" to use a WAIX-accessable RH mirror

[Patrick Tehvand]

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 14:11, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've just had to descend into the "interesting" land of Red Hat for our 
> shiny new Dual Xeon box, due to "official support" requirements of 
> sofware we're using. I have what may be a newbie question but some quick 
> looking on google hasn't helped me, so:
> 
> How can I use "up2date" (which is the closest RH has to apt, yes?) with 
> a local mirror of RH at, say, ftp.iinet.net.au instead of RHN? It /must/ 
> be possible, but I can't find any useful info on it. If so, is there an 
> alternative program to handle updates with dependencies, etc? RHN is so 
> painfully slow its scary.
> 
> Craig

Use apt4rpm

apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org

it will bring back fond memories of one of the best things to come out
of the debian project.

cheers

Patrick

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