-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Austin wrote:
> Two or three times a day I think to myself: > URPMI IS MANDRAKE'S MOST UNDERRATED FEATURE! > > And unfortunately, nobody knows this, and Mandrake doesn't advertise > urpmi per se. > > When I think "Mandrake", I think: "Debian done right!". > > When most people think "Mandrake", they think: "RedHat for newbies." > > Is there something we can do about this? BTW, this is how I convinced some ex-Redhat users who were considering trying Debian because of apt and automatic updates: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bgmilne]# cat /etc/cron.daily/update #!/bin/sh LOG=/var/log/updates echo "Running updates on `date`" > $LOG urpmi.update updates >> /var/log/updates 2>&1 urpmi --media updates --auto-select --auto >> /var/log/updates 2>&1 (well, there was a bit more than that in the argument, such as, "dependencies? what are those?") While we are here, any chance to have gui tools for 1)Selecting how often to run automatic updates 2)Adding entries to /etc/urpmi/skip.list I had a bad experience when testing the above script the first time, since I had samba-server-ldap running in production on a server, and urpmi --auto-select decided the samba-server-2.2.7-2mdk from updates should replace samba-server-ldap-2.2.7a-3mdk running on the server ... resulting in about 2 minutes of downtime wrt. samba while I scp'ed ldap-enabled RPMS to it etc). Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+bJGprJK6UGDSBKcRAlrAAKCLtH8khhMDf9r3toWkmkbM8lkqiACgnBOv vON2Gv8gt+PB+WdlXuznxHc= =ZSPv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
