mandrake update agent?

paulo · 03-27-2003, 03:46 PM

Does Mandrake have the same kind of thing that redhat does regarding auto-updates (update agent).

I have a machine at work (RH7.3) and a laptop (Mandrake 8) and my desktop at work I update all the time with the gui/update agent. I also don't have to pay any fees I just fill out a survey every 60 days with redhat and I get to keep updating my system. I am too cheap to pay for andy yearly subscription so how do I do/ get on the list for Mandrake's free updates?

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MasterC · 03-27-2003, 09:59 PM

You can either use rpmdrake which is a front end to urpmi and watch the emails you recieve on updates... OR what might be more what you want is to just set a cron job to do this task for you. I don't know how to do the cron job suggestion because the rpmdrake works fine for me. I set up a mirror location with a security ftp mirror, and then run rpmdrake on a weekly basis to keep the system up to date with security fixes. You can increase that to ANY updates, but I stick with just security and bug...

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tcaptain · 03-28-2003, 09:37 AM

They also have a Mandrake Update utility that you just fire up and it lists all the updates available (with sorting for security, bug-fix and regular updates).

Although I haven't used it since 7.1 when it completely borked my distro (you just can't rpm glibc while you're up and running...hehe)
But I'm almost CERTAIN its gotten better

I haven't used it yet, just opened it up and looked at the GUI.

paulo · 03-28-2003, 11:13 AM

these are both great suggestions - I will try and get them to work this PM and tell you where I got. Someone around here told me about red carpet. I might investigate that, too. Do you have any comments on red carpet?

thank you