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OSS updates. #59

Open hbpraveen opened 3 months ago

hbpraveen commented 3 months ago

Hi Team,

We do know that we can view the available updates of OSS through the updates tab in ACS Open Source Package Manager GUI or by running yum list updates.

However, this would not suffice our request, as we cannot monitor the updates on daily basis or regular basis to check for any new release as there are 45 OSS installed in our LPAR and we might install more going forward.

Hence we are looking our for some information like where we can the updates for any channel or there any subscription required to get this updates on regular basis and how often the updates will be released for the OSS installed packages.

If you could provide the information here, it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Praveen.

kadler commented 3 months ago

Hence we are looking our for some information like where we can the updates for any channel

Channel? I'm not sure what you're asking for.

or there any subscription required to get this updates

All the software we provide via the repo is free of charge. No subscription is required

how often the updates will be released for the OSS installed packages.

Updates are released periodically. There is no set schedule, they are released when they are ready.

I'm not sure what you're looking for. Our repository works just like Linux repositories, which allows you to query it (via the package manager) for updates. I don't know of any Linux distribution or other product which can alert you to updates. Regardless, we don't have any such mechanism. If that's something you'd like to see, you can open an Idea here.