<quote who="Keld J�rn Simonsen">
> In cooker drakx I had a problem with not being able to do ftp connect to
> get possible updates.

There is no updates source for cooker. They normally add a directory for
the new release during RC time just to test.

> This is at the end of the installation process.
> The pb was also there in mdk 9.1

I can't comment on 9.1, some people said it worked, see below why I can't
test ...

> - and it is annoying and a security
> breach, as this is a good opportunity for people to get patches, and
> apparrantly it does not work at all.
>
> I would also like my own mirror site, klid.dk be listed in the list of
> sites for updates. We do carry all updates.

But a better option would be to allow the user to enter the updates site,
and even better to be able to save the option when saving an autoinst
floppy.

We have an internal updates server, and I don't see why it shouldn't be
easy to have DrakX allow this.

BTW, with the recent Blaster worm for Windows, it would be nice to be able
to punt "easy-to-setup, reliable, secure update mechanism", since that is
the only reason Windows machines on our campus were compromised. We have
an internal Windowsupdate mirror, but very few machines were configured
for it.

Of course, and easy way to setup automated, unsupervised updates (ie via
cron) would also help ...

Regards,
Buchan



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