On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 16:36, François Pons wrote: > Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:51:31 +0200 > > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't believe in this features, since all available docs tells me > > > there is no such feature ;-). > > > > Good for you Buchan because it does not work in this situation. > > Skip works fine if there is a upgrade pkg avaiable that you do not want > > installed, but not to override pkg removal. > > > > What will work, where there are pkgs which will be removed but that you > > wish to retain, is 'urpmi --auto-select --allow--nodeps --allow-force' > > I just added --keep which seems to work correctly, with this option of urpmi (or > urpmq) the resolution of dependencies tries to avoid removing packages at the > cost of refusing upgrading new packages.
That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks. -- adamw
