Ximian Testing Red Carpet Daemon

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.

Comments

Not sure I'd trust this...

[wowbagger]

I'm not sure I'd trust Ximian to auto-update my system - while they try pretty hard, I've had just too many dependancy conflicts updating RPMS from them to feel really warm and fuzzy about having it happen automatically.

Also, one thing I like about RedHat's up2date vs. RedCarpet is that I can tell up2date to leave my damn X server alone!. Neither RedHat 7.2 nor Ximian have XFree 4.2, but at least I can tell up2date "hands off any package with XFree in the title" and not worry about it downgrading me to 4.1. Every time I run RedCarpet I have to tell it "No, I DON'T want you updating my X server, yes I know this is a "security release", but I don't need it!"

Unless redcarpetd has the ability to prevent upgrades on selected packages I wouldn't trust it.

And until the packages get vetted better for conflicts I would be careful. That's what ALL RPM based distro's need - a standard base of packages and libraries that released packages are not allowed to deviate from. Any RPM that call for "foo-1.4.2-unreleased-unstable-pl1.4-thursday.rpm" should be uncerimoniously bounced from any stable release. That's one area I will give the Debian folks credit - they maintain their packages.