On Thursday 28 November 2002 10:54, James Sparenberg wrote: > OK, > I've got SNF running on my firewall.... now comes the problem... How > do I update it? The update directories on the mirrors don't have > hdlist.cz so urpmi is out. The web pages insist that I'm not connected > (note if I wasn't connected the laptop I'm on wouldn't be sending this > e-mail) so I can't use them. SNF has no graphical interface so > MandrakeUpdate is out of the question. All in all it really looks like > it should be a nice product. Other than being slow as heck (speaking of > the web pages.) What it really wants is for me to admit that my cable > modem is my lan and my lan is the internet. (the web pages insist on > swapping eth1 and eth0 > > Basically .. I really would like to know another way to update this > box short of reading the file list in the updates directory and > comparing it to the version installed and downloading and running rpm > one file at a time. > > James
Sorry for the late reaction (I've been out awhile) but in response to the basics: You could get a list of the installed packages using "rpmq -a" (or is that already rpmquery on 7.2?) and then use "rpm -Uvh xxxx xxx" to upgrade all of them in one go. Frankly I doubt if it'll work but it might:o) Maybe one of the perl-geecks could offer a nice script derived from the update scripts on the install cd's, or something of the sort. Personally I don't have the time....nor the skill to do it offhand. For the rest: Me, I'm a very, very satisfied Smoothwall user:o) Good Luck, HarM
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