RE: [school-discuss] Help on packaging / configuration guides

[Steve Kehoe <stevekehoe@yahoo.com>]

Michael,
Much appreciated, I'll look into Yum this week.

Steve

 --- Michael Thompson <mthompson@codedfuture.com>
wrote: > Steve Kehoe,
> Have you looked into Yum? Yum is an automatic
> updater and package
> installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically
> computes dependencies
> and figures out what things should occur to install
> packages. It makes it
> easier to maintain groups of machines without having
> to manually update each
> one using rpm. It was originally for Yellow Dog
> Linux but has been modified
> and released for Fedora, etc. You can get it at
> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Michael Thompson
> President/Founder
> CodedFuture
> mthompson@codedfuture.com
> http://www.codedfuture.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
> [mailto:owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net]
> On Behalf Of Steve Kehoe
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 5:53 PM
> To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
> Subject: [school-discuss] Help on packaging /
> configuration guides
> 
> Can anyone help me out by pointing me to an
> introductary Howto / on-line manual on Linux package
> management and configuration. I'm looking for advice
> on how to automate or simplify as far as possible
> software installation and update procedures for
> Linux
> for both desktops and servers
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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