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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat upgrading packages Post 302193029 by mark54g on Thursday 8th of May 2008 10:12:16 AM
Old 05-08-2008
Normally, red hat does not provide these packages as rpm for download unless you have a support contract.
If you do have a support contract you must set up rhn in the /etc/sysconfig/up2date area.
Otherwise, an option is to get the packages from the CentOS team. Red hat provides source for the packages and CentOS is a distribution of Linux that aims to be as close to 100% binary compatible with RHEL at the same version level.

This is not a comparison between Linux and commercial UNIX in that Red Hat is a distribution of Linux and is not "Linux" in so much as it is not THE OFFICIAL LINUX and all others are derivative works. The methods for configuring them depend on the distribution's methods.

You could easily set up the RHEL servers to use yum and point to the CentOS repositories. However, that is slightly more involved than I care to explain in a single post. This is something you could probably read about elsewhere, however.
 

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rapid-spring

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NAME

       rapid - content download tool for spring

SYNOPSIS

       rapid [options] <action> [<argument>]

       rapid-spring [options] <action> [<argument>]

DESCRIPTION

       Rapid manages downloads of content for the spring RTS engine.

OPTIONS

       action in the command line is one of:

	      upgrade: Install the latest package for all pinned tags.

	      clean-upgrade: Equivalent to 'upgrade' followed by 'uninstall-unpinned'.

	      pin: Pins a tag and installs the latest package for that tag.

	      unpin: Unpins a tag. Does not uninstall any packages.

	      install: Install a package. Does not pin any tags.

	      uninstall: Uninstall a package. Unpin its tag if any.

	      list-tags: List all tags that contain <argument>.

	      list-pinned-tags: Idem, but only pinned tags.

	      list-packages: List all packages whose name contains <argument>.

	      list-installed-packages: Idem, but only installed packages.

	      uninstall-unpinned: Keep only the pinned tags and all dependencies.

	      collect-pool: Remove pool files not needed by any installed package.

	      make-sdd: Extract pool files into a .sdd archive.

       these are the possible options:

	      -h, --help show this help message and exit

	      --datadir=DATADIR Override the default data directory. (~/.spring on Linux or the one reported by unitsync on Windows)

	      --unitsync Use unitsync to locate the data directory Spring uses.

	      --no-unitsync Do not use unitsync.

EXAMPLES

       rapid pin xta:latest   # installs latest XTA

       rapid pin s44:latest   # installs latest Spring: 1944

       rapid upgrade	      # upgrade all pinned tags

SEE ALSO

       rapid-gui(6), spring(6)

AUTHOR

       Tobi Vollebregt <tobivollebregt@gmail.com>

       This manual page was written by Jan Dittberner <jandd@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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