SUSfL - Readme
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  A free set of Python scripts to replace MS SUS in your LAN.

  Version 0.11 - August 2004
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    SUSfL (SUS for Linux) is a clean room implementation of SUS running under Linux.
    Copyright (C) 2004 Vladimir Umnov <uvi@ezmail.ru>

    This file is part of SUSfL.

    SUSfL is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    SUSfL is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with Foobar; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

  Requirements:
    apache (tested on 1.3 and 2)
    Python2 (tested on 2.3)
    wget
    cabextract
    cron (optionally)
    A lot of free space for storing updates
    

  Summary:
    SUSfL is intended to be a free replace of MS SUS (Microsoft Software Update 
    Services). SUSfL can be run on any platform which has Python and apache
    implemented.
    Currently it can:
      - synhronize mannually or by cron updates for selected locales and providers
      - serve requests from W2K, WXP, W2003 for updates
  
  TODO:
    - create web interface
    - implement mysql version, which must work much faster and require less memory

  Download:
    You can get the newest version at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/susfl/.

  Credits:
    - Vladimir Umnov;
        * creator of the SUSfL project
  Installation:
    Please see the INSTALL

  ChangeLog:
    2004-08-28
        * Added HEAD request to aucatalog1.cab before sync start
	* Move old updates to content/old directory (MS SUS doesn't do it)
    2004-08-21
        * First alpha release

  Documentation:
    Basic documentation available in INSTALL

  Support:
    There is no support place for now, please email to author directly
