Le Wednesday 16 July 2003 15:42, Leon Brooks a �crit : > 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?
I think that we should mote to use synthesis.hdlist.cz, it is very small (a few Ko) compared to hdlist.cz I don't understand why we need to dl the hdlist for security updates. Emmanuel
