Re: windows update tidy up.

2007-09-28 Thread Will Sheldon
> seems like MS has been working hard to prevent that :-/ > Every web page I have seen are dynamical serverside created. > The download button for each KB also uses javascript. Well, I suppose it could still generate the bat file, and then tell you what you have to go download. It feels a bit like

Re: windows update tidy up.

2007-09-28 Thread Will Sheldon
I wonder if it would be a good idea to script up something in perl to mine the current set from that page, download any new ones and create a script (xpsp2_current_updates.bat or so) to install them? Is there anywhere to mine the different language download urls from? WDYT? Will. On 28/09/2007,

Re: Mediaplayer split and updates for winxpsp2-updates.bat

2007-09-25 Thread Will Sheldon
> > and I thought that maybe we could: > > create %winver%-ms07-sep.bat %winver%-ms07-aug.bat ... etc. > > This way you could: > > a) Apply all these patches in order. > b) trace back where did it come from. > > WDYT? > I like that idea, Esp as users seem to be using ryanvm's update pack to slip

cpio commands to unpack / repack INITRD

2007-06-30 Thread Will Sheldon
Applogies if this is in the wroing place, i asked in users, but nobody seems to know. I have made some changes to the /etc/master script, and afer repackaging the rootfs with: find . | cpio -H newc -o | gzip -9 > ../initrd_new I no longer have any virtual terminals, `openvt -c 2 bash` gives: Un

Re: [Unattended] prepare

2007-05-14 Thread Will Sheldon
Sourceforge changed their cvs, a simple one line edit to the /tools/script-update file fixed it: 30c30 < CVSLINK="http://unattended.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/unattended/unatte nded/install/scripts" --- > CVSLINK="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/unattended/unatte nded/install/