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Linux® Patch Management: Keeping Linux® Systems Up To Date
By Michael Jang
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: January 17, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-236675-4
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-236675-5
Pages: 288

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Bruce Perens' Open Source Series
		About the Author
		Preface
			What This Book Is About
			What You Need to Know Before Reading This Book
			Who You Are, and Why and How You Should Read This Book
			How This Book Is Laid Out
			Conventions Used
		Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1.  Patch Management Systems
			Section 1.1.  Basic Patch Concepts
			Section 1.2.  Distribution-Specific Repositories
			Section 1.3.  Community-Based Sources
			Section 1.4.  Configuring Your Lan
			Section 1.5.  Summary
		Chapter 2.  Consolidating Patches on a Red Hat/Fedora Network
			Section 2.1.  Creating Your Own Fedora Repository
			Section 2.2.  Configuring a Red Hat Network Proxy
			Section 2.3.  Configuring Red Hat Rebuilds
			Section 2.4.  Summary
		Chapter 3.  SUSE's Update Systems and rsync Mirrors
			Section 3.1.  The YaST Update System
			Section 3.2.  Configuring YaST Patch Management for a LAN
			Section 3.3.  ZENworks Linux Management
			Section 3.4.  Summary
		Chapter 4.  Making apt Work for You
			Section 4.1.  Fundamentals of APT
			Section 4.2.  Creating Your APT Repository
			Section 4.3.  Summary
		Chapter 5.  Configuring apt for RPM Distributions
			Section 5.1.  A History of APT for RPM
			Section 5.2.  Configuring APT for RPM
			Section 5.3.  Setting Up a Local Repository
			Section 5.4.  The APT Commands in Detail
			Section 5.5.  Summary
		Chapter 6.  Configuring a yum Client
			Section 6.1.  The Basic YUM Process
			Section 6.2.  Sample YUM Clients
			Section 6.3.  Special YUM Commands
			Section 6.4.  Configuring Automatic Updates
			Section 6.5.  A yum GUI Tool
			Section 6.6.  Summary
		Chapter 7.  Setting Up a yum Repository
			Section 7.1.  Getting the Packages
			Section 7.2.  Managing Headers
			Section 7.3.  Configuring a Local yum Server
			Section 7.4.  Adding Other Repositories
			Section 7.5.  Maintaining the Repository
			Section 7.6.  Creating an Enterprise Repository
			Section 7.7.  Summary
		Index