On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 06:16, Avi Schwartz wrote: > On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 12:17 AM, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 20:05, Avi Schwartz wrote: > >> Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did > >> not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts > >> circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update > >> --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the > >> graphical updater, the same story. I ended up downloading the new > >> RPMs > >> and installing them manually. How am I supposed to trust DrakeUpdate > >> and urpmi? > >> > >> This is something Mandrake can learn from SuSE. Their online update > >> works perfectly every time. > >> > >> Avi > > > > No not every time. Try to do an online update for the NVidia drivers. > > 100% failure on 6 boxes. As for the problem. Did you do urpmi.update > > -a first? If your inbox records are behind the servers records then > > what it's telling you is correct. > > > > That may be a little unfair to SuSE. The NVidia drivers are closed > source and so they can be a challenge for any distribution. As I > understand it, people fixed the problem by using the older driver. But > my point was not to talk about a specific patch. It would be also nice > if Mandrake would send notification about security patches to their > mailing lists. In generalshould look into tightening the update > process when it comes to security patches. Unlike regular updates that > may not be very important some security patches can be critical. Also > downloading the list of files can be a major pain. Couple of 15MB > lists can take awhile, even at IDSL speeds (144K) not to mention > dial-up speeds. > > Avi
Two points here. 1. use the synthesis.hdlist.cz instead of hdlist.cz (huge diff in size) 2. Under Configuration-other in your menu you'll find "Discover Custom Services" If you buy a boxed set or are a club member you can setup auto notification (via e-mail) and even auto update of a box. james > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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