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Subject: Re: [suse-security] Suggestion to the SuSE security people
From: Andreas Hasenack (andreasconectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 07:43:00 CDT

Em Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:09:12AM -0600, Kurt Seifried escreveu:
> to house all the updates). Also be nice if there was something nice and
> simple like windows update, go to a website, run a local thing to list what
> you got, remote site tells you what you need/etc. In any event all the
> vendors have a ton of work to do making updates easier for end users.

apt-get is being patched to support RPM packages as well, and with GPG support:

[rootpandora /root]# apt-get update
Get:1 http://zaphod.distro.conectiva latest/conectiva/base/hashfile [176B]
Fetched 1B in 0s (2B/s)
Hit http://zaphod.distro.conectiva latest/conectiva/base/pkglist.001
Ign http://zaphod.distro.conectiva latest/conectiva release
Get:1 ftp://mapi2.distro.conectiva 5.9/conectiva/base/pkglist.001 [887kB]
Get:2 ftp://mapi2.distro.conectiva 5.9/conectiva release
Ign ftp://mapi2.distro.conectiva 5.9/conectiva release
Get:3 ftp://mapi2.distro.conectiva 5.9/conectiva/base/pkglist.002 [472kB]
Fetched 1360kB in 0s (1847kB/s)
Processing File Dependencies... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done

[rootpandora /root]# LC_ALL= LANG= apt-get upgrade
Processing File Dependencies... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  gnome-core gnome-libs perl-Digest-MD5 perl-MD5 reiserfs-utils
The following packages will be upgraded
  Gtk-Perl Gtk-Perl-GdkImlib XFree86 XFree86-100dpi-fonts XFree86-75dpi-fonts XFree86-Server
  XFree86-Xnest XFree86-Xvfb XFree86-cyrillic-fonts XFree86-devel XFree86-doc XFree86-libs
  XFree86-xfs anonftp apache-devel apache-doc bzip2 bzip2-devel dev fileutils flying fvwm2-extras
  gettext-tupdate gfcc ghostscript ghostscript-fonts glibc glibc-devel glibc-profile gmc gmp
  gnome-core-devel gnome-libs-devel howto howto-html howto-portuguese howto-sgml howto-spanish
  info initscripts kudzu kudzu-devel librep librep-devel mc mcserv mon-perl mutt mxp nc ncompress
  nscd p2c p2c-devel perl-DBI perl-HTML-Parser perl-MIME-Base64 perl-Period perl-Time-HiRes
  perl-gettext pinfo postgresql-clients postgresql-clients-X11 postgresql-devel postgresql-doc
  postgresql-jdbc postgresql-lib postgresql-odbc postgresql-perl postgresql-tcl ppp python
  python-devel python-doc python-idle rep-gtk rep-gtk-gnome sawfish sendmail sendmail-cf
  sendmail-doc sharutils squid sxid texinfo tkinter ucd-snmp-utils vim-X11 vim-common vim-enhanced
  vim-help vim-minimal vim-syntax webxref wine wine-devel wine-doc x3270 xbill xpilot
100 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 128MB of archives. After unpacking 214kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

oops, lots of new packages, these betas move too fast... :-) 

-- 
Andreas Hasenack
andreasconectiva.com.br
BIG Linux user!

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