Re: [expert] Re: urpmi..great tool...just need to finalize a few question

[Jason Williams]

At 09:36 PM 11/19/2003 +0100, you wrote:
This might help you.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ cat /etc/cron.weekly/update_mdk
#!/bin/bash
#Keeps the system updated
urpmi.update -a --wget   urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$
you might want to change that to just get the updates,
this first get new list from all of the defined urpmi-sources
(urpmi.update -a), then updates all the installed packages (--auto-select),
with no confirmation (--auto), regardless of not signed rpms
(--no-verify-rpm), both operations using wget instead of curl.
Since it's in cron.weekly, well once a week...
This is on my destop, a produktion server proberbly needs
restart of updated programs.
/Björn
Thanks Bjorn. I appreciate it. I was testing a few commands. After adding 
my media, I tried to update all the media with this:

$ urpmi.update -a
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of updates...
...retrieving done
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.updates.cz]
computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis)
examining MD5SUM file
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of main...
computing md5sum of retrieved source hdlist (or synthesis)
...retrieving failed: md5sum mismatch
retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium main
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of contrib...
...retrieving done
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz]
Ok..updates seemed to have worked as did contrib, but main failed. Any 
particular reason why this may have happened?
It seems that when main fails, I cant get a full listing of regular 
packages, like samba (2.2.8a).
Is the best way to fix this to remove the media, and add a different media?

I appreciate it.

Jason



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Re: [expert] Re: urpmi..great tool...just need to finalize a few question

[Greg Meyer]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 03:36 pm, Björn Lundin wrote:
 Jason Williams wrote:

 cut

  Does urpmi have the ability to pull security patches down and
  automatically install?

You just have to define an update source.  All the update mirrors have the 
same ../base/hdlist.cz format as the dist tree, so you can add it with

urpmi.addmedia updates --update ftp://path to source with ../base/hdlist.cz

The --update switch tells urpmi that this is the update source and then you 
can apply security updates with 

urpmi.update -a  urpmi --auto-select --update

This updates the local hdlists and then autoselects packages for installation 
based on what you have installed only from the update repository.  Have fun.
-- 
/g

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