ביום חמישי 18 מרץ 2004, 13:20, נכתב על ידי [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Oded Arbel wrote: > > You'll have major problems with that, especially the part where you > > assume > > > >that everyone is connected to the internet all the time. > > You can enable/disable this, or you can do some clever tricks with > if-up/if-down.
There are people who are not connected at all. besides, I don't want and "dial home devices" on my computer, especially not the kind that automaticly activate. > >I don't think its an exageration to expect linux workstations to update > > their glibc at least once a year - and that as transparent as you can > > get: look at windows users - they do it all the time. > > Actually it sounds like an exageration to me - production systems want > stability above all, I'm not talking about production servers. note the word "workstations". I'm refering to the kind of places where you want hands-off update of everything w/o bothering the user - linux desktops. I don't think its a stretch to expect linux desktop users to run up2date/rpmdrake/synaptic in order to get the latest _tried_and_tested_ packages from their distribution's package repositories. > A separate script to update just the timezone should make people a > little more comfortable > with automatic updates. You can put that in "production systems" aka servers. I'm sure the admin for those systems is qualified enough to download a deb/rpm/whatnot package from somewhere and install it on her own. you don't need to get that as part of the distribution. said admin is also probably qualified enough to write her own update script given a well known interface and a reliable update source - for example, a CVS repository on HUJI or something containing properly versioned timezone files. -- Oded ::.. Reasons to Run Away 47-"You uncover the vampire lord's casket for staking (after destroying his minions before sunset) to find it empty..." ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
