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....
This is my 2 Fijian cents.
Cheers
Franck Martin
Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> At 03 August, 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > Frederic Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > A. Where is the "helix-updater" in Mandrake 7.1?
> >
> > we don't ship that, MandrakeSoft != HelixCode
>
> Well, MandrakeSoft != GNU you still ship ALOT of gnu stuff. MandrakeSoft != SUN
>Still have staroffice on some CD aso.
>
> OK, you dont ship it. But would is be that stupid as you try to make it sound?
>
> //Snaggen
>
