From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Geo wrote:
> "Adam"  wrote in message
> news:44b506b4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> I doubt they're security updates.....in terms of OSS apps in general
>> it's the "release early & often" which means that
the apps themselves
>> are often updated fairly rapidly. Nothing to do with security,
>> everything to do with functionality etc.
>
> I wouldn't be too sure, I've seen an average of about 5 security patches a
> week announced on the security lists for some distro's.
>

Oh indeed but see my point wrt what you have installed. Modern distros come
with enormous amounts on the cd'es/DVD & possibly even more in online
repos.

If you install 10K apps then yup you may well see 5 patches per week. If
not...then that number drops.

e.g. a mate of mine has redone is (linksys I think) wifi router with linux
mostly for ssh (it allows his PC to be set to WoL & thus save power etc
& he has yet to get any update notifications mailed to him.

Adam

>> Nope but you can set up lots of repos & then the manager gives you
>> series of views (e.g. by repo, by package name etc).
>
> Where do you set this up?
>

In Mandrake in the "Configure your Computer"/"Software
Management"/"Select from where software packages are downloads
when updating the system".

Alternatively....you can type drakconf....to get to the screen or
"urpmi" where to add a new repo it' " urpmi addmedia
........medianame....."

e.g that easy urpmi page i gave you the link to ends up spitting out a set
of commands which you simply paste into a terminal & hit enter e.g.

e.g. having chosen some addresses here is all the string you need to set up
a number of repos for mdk:

"urpmi.addmedia plf-free
http://plf.lastdot.org/mandriva/free/2006.0/i586 with hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree
http://ftp.gts.lug.ro/plf/mandriva/non-free/2006.0/i586 with hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia --update updates
ftp://mirror.cricyt.edu.ar/MandrivaLinux/official/updates/2006.0/main_updates/
with media_info/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia main
ftp://mirror.inspire.net.nz/mandrake/official/2006.0/i586/media/main
with media_info/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia contrib
ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/mirrors/Mandrake-linux/official/2006.0/i586/media/contrib
with media_info/hdlist.cz "


Oddly the one starting with "urpmi.addmedia --update updates "
is.....the ...waaaait for it......updates repo.....

& then you can add other sites such as

http://seerofsouls.com/

for bleeding edge up to the second stuff

or jpackage (a sh*tload of rpm'ed java apps).

http://www.jpackage.org/repos.php


Adam

In Suse it's the Yast

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