One of these coming days I will most probably be planting a MDK box at the office as a general file server etc.

In MDK control centre you can click update, select updates, dload updates and it installs them automatically. Now, I want to keep the ammount of work to a minimum so I have 2 options.
- I don't update at all.
- I find a way to have the MDK box update automatically (without using/starting XFree).

I can help my self with the first option, but I can't even talk about the second one. Is there any-one that has any experience with, or knows of any way to create some form of an automatic update.

Would be cool to get some feedback....


Sean.

check our urpmi's options.one of them is urpmi --update but you also need to make sure that the hdlist is updated, which at this moment I can't remember how to do.

To update all sources type this in



So, theoretically you could write a script that runs the above command first, checks its return value (assuming it has one) and if no errors then run the update command. I am not sure of the exact bash syntax, perhaps someone else can fill that in, or maybe they have a better suggestion.

garu, where aarree yooouuu?

I think you would have to incorporate rsync in there somewhere, otherwise you would end up with all the updates. Nothing wrong with i guess, but there is often updates which i don't require, or updates for software i don't even have installed. You could end up with a over bloated system.

isn't urpmi --update only supposed to update the packages you have installed? *looks confused* that's what i thought, atleast...

Your right it does
Im always running cooker so for me doing that would be disasterious. I have to be very careful what i install or upgrade.
Back to the topic, found this

its meant to but ...

On the same theme I was planning on downloading the updates regualrly and then ruinning thm locally.

I installed2 Mdk 9.1's last week and had to download the updates twice since the rpm cache is automatically cleaned and i was to distracted to copy it halfway through ...


Same for all the patches etc. from texstar and plf...
what I want is to download em once to a server and then be able to locally add em but urpmi seems to wanna delete em everytime it installs.

Personally i find this stupid, who'd run a system with no access to the install files if anything goes wrong, the line goes down or whatever.

At the moment im in an untenable position of being in this situation ... it sucks big time... The point is i just want the ones I want on the server, so when I add something from the internet via urpmi I want it to keep the file. That way all my machines can be patched to the same level.

Anyone else do this ???

there's an option somewhere that you can use to tell urpmi to keep or delete files when you use urpmi to install them.

check man urpmi i believe it's in there somewhere, or if someone knows (i can't check-at work) i'm sure they could tell you.

that will leave the rpms in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms after you install them.

Im at home now so i man'd
If i have any time later Ill write the scripts to do the updates to a local cache ...