The new Mandrake Update rocks my socks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Odin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Helix Gnome + Mandrake menus (mdk7.1)
> 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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