-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leon Brooks wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:58, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: > >>>>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. > > >>what about > > >> urpmi --auto-select --test > > > I have a better idea. It is a useful property of gzip and bzip2 files > that multiple files can be concatenated and will all be unpacked into > the one when gunzip/bunzip2 is run against them. > > Why not add new updates to the end of the index file instead of making > an entire new index file (offer it two ways, one incremental and one > tradition) so that detecting new updates is a matter of downloading a > few kilobytes (wget -c or whatever) rather than multi megabytes? >
Have you looked at the descriptions file which is present on update sources, and saved in /var/lib/urpmi for update sources? Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/FVZkrJK6UGDSBKcRAsYWAJ9cnB7B0E+f7HRYLKswgfu8vh9FFACfSZA3 1WsLTiwwETmRtykwSkOJqtk= =187O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
