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Ximian Testing Red Carpet Daemon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the machine-update-self dept.

rainmanjag writes "GNOMEdesktop.org noted a new page on Ximian's site announcing the testing release of Red Carpet Daemon which would allow administrators to do automatic software updates on workstations within the enterprise. You can also get a command line copy of Red Carpet." Hopefully this works out better than the time I cronned apt-get upgrade under Debian's unstable tree. Whoops.

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  1. autoupdate by guacamole · · Score: 3, Informative

    For the last eight months, we have been using autoupdate at our site to keep about 50 RedHat Linux boxes up-to-date. It seems to work pretty well. Though, this red carpet stuff looks pretty interesting too.

  2. Re:Cautious: Burnt by Ximian. :( by pbowen · · Score: 2, Informative

    RCD gives the administrator full control over their system. It does not require Ximian Desktop to be installed, nor will it auto-update the Desktop. RCD can be used to simply install vendor updates on to servers, if that is what you are interested in.

    Granted, some operating systems handle updates differently than others, but, using Red Hat Linux 7.3 as an example, this month alone there have 58 packages released as errata. RCD will tell you which of these apply to your system, and can, optionally, install them for you. However it will not ever install something unless a user directly tells it to.

    As the original post says "Can you be responsible for a slew of deesktops when you don't ... bless updates which are placed on to systems?" Of course not, and this is exactly why RCD requires explicit direction to make changes to the system software.

  3. Unfair: Ximian are now a lot better by anonymous+cupboard · · Score: 3, Informative
    I have one machine still on up2date and one on Red Carpet. The Red Carpet updater has been going for all of this year and in the beginning, it was dependency hell (reminded me of DLLs under Win). However since about Easter, it has been very stable. The only issue is if I trigger so many dependencies that /var is filled up with incomming rpms.

    If you don't want beta, just don't subscribe to the beta releases. The other stuff seems fine. This particular system is an RH7.1ish 2.4.19 kernel with Ximian Gnome.