-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 François Pons wrote: > Le lun 10/03/2003 à 14:22, Buchan Milne a écrit : > > >>While we are here, any chance to have gui tools for >>1)Selecting how often to run automatic updates > > > This could be great indeed, any idea how to improve urpmi/rpmdrake is > welcome as next version will be designed soon now.
A request from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list was to have a delay available, so that you could run updates daily, but never get an update which was less than X days old. This would allow you to run with delay of 0 on a test server, and a greater delay on production machines (10-15 days seems to be about optimal according to some studies), allowing you to have peace-of-mind that you will not unknowingly install a broken update on a production server, assuming you keep an eye on the test server or the security lists. > > >>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). > > > You may want to use --bug $LOG/`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'` to the urpmi > command line, so that you have a per session based update log (so that > if something fail, you have a bug report to send me too). > The problem was AFAIK not due to, or fixable by urpmi, since we have samba-server obsolete samba-server-ldap, and vice versa, to allow people to switch between them easily. This is really a hack due to samba only having compile-time configurable account backends in 2.2.x, solved in 3.0 with run-time configurable (including multi) account backends. > Just create a compressed archive maybe on the fly to avoid keeping too > much place if necessary ? This would be of value on non-production machines, but on production machines you only want to know if something broke, and if so only minimally why ... but it would be useful to have more than just one day history ... Regards, 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+bKyUrJK6UGDSBKcRArl1AJ9jO2lfJYr7TBuflEfkfTAzXLe+wwCcC5xa ezFgL2XIha8wJOM/ADUbAXs= =vTzC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
