Re: red-carpet and up2date on same machine

[Anand Buddhdev <arb anand org>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:37:50AM -0500, Kevin MacNeil wrote:

> > I must admit that for the last year or so I have been running
> > red-carpet and up2date.
> > 
> > Red carpet is used for all my package updates, and it has never given
> > any problems.
> > 
> > Up2date is run only to do kernel upgrades. 
> 
> I use red-carpet exclusively, although I manually install kernel, glibc
> and openssl updates because redhat releases i686 binaries for them.  If
> up2date was smart enough to download the proper machine-specific
> binaries, that would definitely be a point in its favor.  Other than
> that I prefer red-carpet because the downloads are so much faster.

Huh? Check again. Up2date *does* know about architectures, and will
install the correct i686 packages as needed.

I've just updated my kernel using up2date, and this is what I have:

$ rpm -q --queryformat "%{arch}\n" kernel
i686

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