That's a good idea. I think I can create the software for Mandrake
update tool, similar to apt-get, written in C++ (not C - I'm tired!).
What I can make is a simple console tool to get a file list from a file,
eg: /etc/mandrakeupdate.mirror and then fetch the list starting from the
beginning of the line in that file, and it will do an automatic RPM
update (including dependencies). That way people will have no worry
about buffer overflow, etc. Then it will update your RPM automatically
so that even when you're sleeping you don't have to worry about any
bugs. What do you think? Give me a feedback before I start coding.
I'm not Mandrake's developer, but I feel obligated to try coding for
Mandrake because I really like Mandrake than any other distros that I've
tried, and I feel it's time for me to pay back. So far I've only
contributed gnome-telnet to 7.2
I've done a few TCP/IP programming before, so it shouldn't be that hard.
If everybody wants it, I'll make the tool. I can make a commitment to
code every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It'll approximately take 2.5 -
3 months to finish (after beta-test, bug fix, etc) because I have a job
and my college takes quite a lot of my time.
Prana
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"Brian J. Murrell" wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:38:54PM -0500, Tim McKenzie wrote:
> >
> > you could just mirror all the sites to one base site...
>
> Huh? I must be misunderstanding. All I want is a tool on a given
> machine that looks at a list of updates on a server somewhere and
> updates the given machine to the latest packages. What do I have to
> be mirroring all the sites to one base site for?
>
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