hi, if i read you correctly then i think urpmi will do what you want from a command line and thus is suitable for a cron job, if you have used mandrakeupdate and have only added a security updates source then i think the following: #urpmi --auto-select will automatically check for updates in your defined source, however i don't know if it asks for confirmation before doing the update, if you have defined a cooker source then such a command is likely to prompt you to upgrade nearly your whole system and will ask you if you want to install new packages to satisfy changed dependencies, i recommend reading the docs for urpmi and seeing if it will do the trick for you, to define a new source for urpmi from the command line you need to use #urpmi.addmedia type --help after this command to see the syntax HTH bascule On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:08 pm, you wrote: > the problem is that not allways i will have the xserver and if i do could i > run it from crontab?? i guess not. > > i could use wget to take it all, but only need tha packages i have > installed. any other ideas? > > thanks. > > At 17:30 05/09/01 -0300, you wrote: > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by > >mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com id PAA03133 > > > >Clovis Sena wrote: > > > hi people, > > > > > >88 i am making some crontab script to try automatize some updates. I > > > > wish to > > > > > check at some intervals if there is some updates for the packages i > > > have > > > >2> installed, so i try > > > > > path$>for a in 'rpm -qa' do > > > path$>echo "Getting package $a...please wait." > > > path$>wget ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/updates/8.0/RPMS/$a > > > > > > for initial testing, but found some little problems. > > > > > > firist, the rpm -qa output is the complete name of package, eg > > > vim-0.6-2.3-mdk.etc.rpm and not only the name "vim" as i need. I > > > also try using the %{NAME} flag but with worse results. > > > > > > note: as seen above wget will try the exact file name and never would > > > find some updates. The idea is to make wget search for some thing like > > > $a* ( example: vim* ). > > > > > > does somebody knows the way i could use rpm to output only the package > > > > names?? > > > > > tia, > > > > > > Clovis. > > > >222 > >8 Update to rpm 4.0!!! > > Here this is the default behaviour! > > But I think you'll need to use MandrakeUpdate... > > =o) > > > >-- > >Leonardo T. de Carvalho > > Ibiz Tecnologia > >Frase aleatória: > >" "Beauty is transitory." > > "Beauty survives." > > -- Spock and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate > > unknown " > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > ------------------------------------------------- > Clovis Sena > Itautec.Com Servicos > S2uporte Tecnico Software/Hardware > --------------- > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fone : 0xx81-3421-1126 > Fax : 0xx81-3421-4988 > -------------------------------------------------
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