On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 03:55, Bopolissimus Platypus wrote: > > if anyone's done that, how do you do updates? i'd rather do rsync > updates if possible, but wget updates are OK, i guess, or whatever > is best. if anyone has a mirror already, i'd love to update from them > (similar criteria as above, i wouldn't want to stress your outbound link > excessively).
Hello Tiger, I missed to answer you this part of your message. I believe you know how to use the urpmi related tools. You may want to check http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php for easy urpmi setup for your machines directly to other mirror sites. If you want to host your own urpmized mirror site for your entire LAN, you can use the urpmi.setup and urpmi.setup-web tools. Just do the following commands from your machine: # urpmi urpmi.setup urpmi.setup-web > although, maybe that doesn't matter too much if i update at around > 2AM, when, generally, bandwidth is fast. I don't recommend you to do a "urpmi.update" using cron jobs. Much better you subscribe to the "announce" and/or "exploits" mailing lists at http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/mlist.php and whenever you receive mails from those mailing lists, that's the time you run your "urpmi.update" tool. One last tip, you may want to make a simple script that contains the following: #!/bin/bash urpmi.update updates && urpmi --media updates --auto-select I personally named it as "/usr/sbin/update-packages". Good luck! =) --- MARVIN T. PASCUAL E-mail: marvinDOTpascualATbirDOTgovDOTph Tel. No. +63 2 4262172 Mobile No. +63 919 3141254 Yahoo! Messenger ID: bintut Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux User No. 247127 ---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o--- Diskless Thin Client Networking using GNU/Linux ---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---o0o---
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