[lug] Red Hat Network Experience?

[Rob Nagler]

Greg Horne writes:
> The part where it gets the headers for everything, removes the ones
> it doesn't need, and then gives you a list takes forever.  Do you
> know what I mean?  I'm on a T1 BTW.

Yes I noticed this.  There is a buffer for the number of headers
up2date keeps in memory.  You can adjust it at
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date but I didn't try it out.

Another gripe is that when it runs interactively it prompts you if the
package doesn't have a GPG signature.  I learned quickly to run
"up2date -u", so I'm not bothered acknowledging something I have no
way of validating or invalidating.  The packages are imported over a
secure connection, so the only problem I could imagine is their
machine was compromised in which case anybody wanting to send a Trojan
horse to all customers would also have access to their GPG private
key.

Rob