Re: Live Upgrade for Linux

From: Seth Arnold (sarnold@wirex.com)
Date: 03/25/03

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From: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com

    On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:41:20PM -0600, Kelly Sauke wrote:
    > Does anyone know of any software for linux that acts similar to "Live
    > Upgrade" in Solaris or "Alternate Release Areas" in DG/UX?

    I don't know what "Live Upgrade" or "Alternate Release Areas" are, but I
    _think_ you are talking about automatic updating tools.

    Debian's apt is tried and true.

    RedHat's up2date is newer, and seems to keep people happy.

    Mandrake has something, but I can't recall its name. upnrm or something.

    I bet SuSE's YAST2 has something similar.

    <plug>
    I also recommend reading a refereed paper published at USENIX LISA 2002,
    about the quality of security patches and best times to apply patches.
    http://immunix.org/~crispin/time-to-patch-usenix-lisa02.ps.gz [400k]
    http://immunix.org/~crispin/time-to-patch-usenix-lisa02.pdf [214k]
    The short of it is: critical systems might not want automatic patch
    application.
    </plug> 

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