Linux Patch Management: Keeping Linux Systems Up To Date

DESCRIPTION

This guide explains how to plan a patch repository for a Fedora Core or Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, keep individual SUSE Linux Professional and Linux Enterprise Server systems up to date with YaST, mirror update servers with rsync, and use apt to maintain a Debian client. It then discusses configuring apt and yum clients for Red Hat package manager (RPM-based) distributions. Annotation ? 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Table of Contents 1 Patch management systems 1 2 Consolidating patches on a Red Hat/Fedora network 43 3 SUSE's update systems and rsync mirrors 79 4 Making apt work for you 115 5 Configuring apt for RPM distributions 151 6 Configuring a yum client 179 7 Setting up a yum repository 219