On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:59:32PM +1200, Franck Martin wrote:
> I have checked the MandrakeUpdate or the helix updater and the tools look
> great. However for a corporation they seems a waste of bandwidth.
>
> If you have 10 computers to upgrade you will have to download 10 times the
> same package over slow links. It would be more intersting to have a server
> downloading the updates and having the other workstation checking this server
> for newer update.
>
> I have checked the mandrake update and it seems I cannot do that...
>
> Anybody has a solution?
I'm *pretty* sure that MandrakeUpdate will leave the RPMs in /tmp
after they are downloaded, so you could easily write some sort of
script to download them from there on your main server and then run
rpm -Fvh on them to get the update done. It's a bit of a kludge, but
it should work.
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