On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:50:07PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
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> > found on a.o.l.m. Should not be as hard to implement - basically
> > amounts to urpmi.update + check if urpmi --auto-select returns
> > anything + special check for new kernel. This all could definitely
> > be packed in one perl script
> >
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> > Is there a way to get Mandrake Update to automatically check for updates
> >   and then display a notification or send a mail/message to tell me. It
> > gets a bit boring running M.U. only to find nothing there ;-)  The
> > RedHat notification tool is a perfect example but I haven't seen
> > anything similar for MDrake

what about

  urpmi --auto-select --test

run it in cron.daily - or remove --test to just get it done.

Best regards
Keld

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