The program discovers and downloads the updates for .bff and .rpm fix packages for AIX 4.x/5.x. Might be an alternative for SUMA and is more convenient than using "compare_report" script. The wide set of exit codes serves well in scripting environment.
This program allows you automatically check for updates for AIX 5L packages and rpms and download and/or install them. It is a replacement for well-known `fixdist` in AIX4.
UPMS is based on BSD ports system, it can be used on any FSH 2.x Linux compatible distribution. UPMS have two level of dependencies checking, required and suggested. This two levels makes UPMS to tune all of the packages to optimal or minimal, depend on