On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:18:02AM +0100, Pixel wrote:
> Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> What exactly is needed? If it's something like keep everything uptodate,
Actually something _like_ up2date (pun intended). I believe up2date
(redhat's utility) does more than even MandrakeUpdate. Does
MandrakeUpdate handle the case where I have an rpm "foo-1.1-1mdk"
installed. A new release comes out, foo-1.1-2mdk but has a new
dependancy on bar-3.5? Will MandrakeUpdate fetch and install
bar-3.5*mdk even though it's not already installed on my system?
> - my first solution was to say, mirror the dir and rpm -Fvh * but someone told
> that it was bothersome to download the unneeded packages.
I have 6% of the distribution installed. I would statistically be
downloading 16x the times the number of packages I would actually
install. Is that really an answer? How often shall I do that? Once
a day? Once a week? Once a month? In the meanwhile my box gets
broken into because of a vulnerability that gets widely exploited
before I do my once-a-month update.
> - my second solution was to do exactly what MandrakeUpdate is doing, just simpler
> (aka assuming one wants to update everything).
I missed that one.
> These 2 are so simple that i can't see what needs to be done!
So write a tool and put into the distro. Make sure it can efficiently
and reliably (deal with old and new dependancies, etc.) update the O/S
even if run every hour.
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
