On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:24:57PM +1200, Franck Martin wrote:
> The helix updater is not important as long as the helix updated packages appear in
>the Mandrake Updates, and fast...
>
> Mandrake DO really need a good updater, with unattended updates.
>
> This is what I have found:
>
> In Mandrake-update.pm file which is installed with the mandrake-update executable,
>you find the line
> mirror=http://www.mandrake-soft.com/mirrors.lst.
>
> If you modify this line and point it to your corporate mirror, you control what gets
>updated.
>
> It would be nice to upgrade this line by checking in a /etc/mandrake-update.conf
>file where we should look for the list
> of mirror. A Network Administrator will remove the default to put his/her own list
>of mirrors...
>
> Now the extra, is to pass a switch to "mandrake-update -a" to automatically update
>all the packages listed without user
> intervention (a cron job).
>
> Problem: the kernels do not update automatically, despite beeing provided in
>update... So there must be a switch in the
> <xml> to stop the automatic update....
>
And glibc doesn't upgrade either, and, and...
An automated updater would be _very_ dangerous.
The new version of MandrakeUpdate (in Cooker) as some facilities to let
people update their system from a Cooker mirror or from any place on a disk.
Try it and tell me what you think.
> This is my 2 Fijian cents.
>
Is that much? ;-)
DindinX
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