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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. 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.