Le mer 16/07/2003 � 18:47, Ben Reser a �crit :
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 07:32:09PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > Sigh ... the man was asking for a tool that
> > 
> > - is part of distribution
> 
> urpmc could be moved to main if there is enough interest.

+1

> > - is available and enabled by default
> 
> Could be installed by default.

Should, as it is already available in RH ... and other proprietary OSes.

> > - does not require cron knowledge
> 
> Could be added to the msec cron that already gets run and just made as
> an msec option to "check for updates"

Be carefull to test whether the user wants this check or not : if you
need 15 s on a modem connection to just verify if there is an update, i
think it is useless. I should be very fast. (When i launch it
interactively here on a lan connection, the first time it takes 30s to
launch, the second 6s on a XP1600+ with 265Mo RAM).

Don't you think a flag could be used insttead of reading the whole
update.lists ?

For example :
You install Mandrake 9.2.
One month after there is a bugfix :
the flag comes to 9.2_bugfix_0 to 9.2_bugfix_1
For upgrades :
the flag comes to 9.2_upgrade_0 to 9.2_upgrade_1
For security :
the flag comes to 9.2_security_0 to 9.2_security_1

Like this, the process should be very rapid, and if the last number on
the installed machine is lower than the number for the update, you can
get a notification.

Fast, reliable, could be integrated easily in urpmi -urpmi --notify or
similar ?

Stef


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