Le Wednesday 16 July 2003 12:50, Buchan Milne a �crit : > There is this one: > > http://guilz1.free.fr/updrem/ > > IMHO, it does some things the wrong way, since it shouldn't need any > configuration (should all be read from urpmi.cfg or via perl-URPM, or > should complain that you have no update source). > > It could just diff the descriptions file from the system against the > descriptions file on the mirrors, assuming the user did updates when > they last updated their update medium lists.
This project was done by some of my students, but they didn't know the distribution very well. The idea was to do something like windows update, or the redhat equivalent: download regulary security updates and install them. the public concerned was people beginning with mandrake, so no knowledge about urpmi, cron and so. There is one reason that they don't use urpmi.cfg: the update source isn't configured if the MandrakeUpdate hasn't been launched before. And mandrake provide a list of servers with updates on their home page. The other difficulty was "when two users are on the computer, should their run both the updrem ? and where to store files, as theirs haven't root priviledge" The idea was to download first packages (when user want to dl them) and then to ask for root passwd to do the install. Emmanuel
