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From: The Derfer on 9 Nov 2007 18:09
Time was when I could just ftp to a site, cd to the relevant directory
and
type 'mget *' to download all the Red Hat Linux rpm package updates.

I now have 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5' or 'Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 CLIENT' if you want to call it that. I have a
subscription
to updates, but am I now really sentenced to goffy GUIs that try to
install
things for me and eat system resources or is there a way to do it the
old
bare-bones, brute-force way of downloading the rpm packages myself
(which
I'd like to keep copies of anyway) and then rpm'ing in the ones I want
to install?
Is there a place I can get the (binary, not source) RPMs?

From: Dan Espen on 9 Nov 2007 22:16
The Derfer <derf109(a)gmail.com> writes:

> Time was when I could just ftp to a site, cd to the relevant directory
> and
> type 'mget *' to download all the Red Hat Linux rpm package updates.
>
> I now have 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5' or 'Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 5 CLIENT' if you want to call it that. I have a
> subscription
> to updates, but am I now really sentenced to goffy GUIs that try to
> install
> things for me and eat system resources or is there a way to do it the
> old
> bare-bones, brute-force way of downloading the rpm packages myself
> (which
> I'd like to keep copies of anyway) and then rpm'ing in the ones I want
> to install?
> Is there a place I can get the (binary, not source) RPMs?

If you want updates:

up2date --update

No GUI necessary.
From: Allen Kistler on 10 Nov 2007 12:41
Dan Espen wrote:
> The Derfer <derf109(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I now have 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5' or 'Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux 5 CLIENT' if you want to call it that. I have a
>> subscription...
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Is there a place I can get the (binary, not source) RPMs?
>
> If you want updates:
>
> up2date --update
>
> No GUI necessary.

RHEL5 uses yum. There's a plug-in to give registered users access to
the RHN repository. If you just want to download but not
install/update, there's also a "downloadonly" yum plug-in.
From: Phil Sherman on 12 Nov 2007 09:15
The Derfer wrote:
> Time was when I could just ftp to a site, cd to the relevant directory
> and
> type 'mget *' to download all the Red Hat Linux rpm package updates.
>
> I now have 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5' or 'Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 5 CLIENT' if you want to call it that. I have a
> subscription
> to updates, but am I now really sentenced to goffy GUIs that try to
> install
> things for me and eat system resources or is there a way to do it the
> old
> bare-bones, brute-force way of downloading the rpm packages myself
> (which
> I'd like to keep copies of anyway) and then rpm'ing in the ones I want
> to install?
> Is there a place I can get the (binary, not source) RPMs?
>

You have the option of keeping all downloaded update packages when you
use the GUI interface. If you don't want to install updates for SOME of
your installed software, then you are usually refusing to close
potential security holes that were discovered in the software you
installed.

You should be able to shut down the GUI if you don't want to get the nag
messages.

Phil Sherman
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