I don't use Mandrake Update.  I haven't tried it recently, but I
remember having difficulty figuring out what packages were updated at a
glace.  I usually rpm -Fvh * and take care of problems as they pop up,
or I use kpackage (which for some reason now throws an error before
installing each package).

Vincent Danen wrote:
> 
> On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 01:25:17PM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  I still remember the PHP upgrade nightmare in Mandrake 7.2.
> 
> Hmmm... if you remember that one, you'll remember this one for quite a
> while to come as well.
> 
> Of course, the upside is that future updates should be very easy to do
> (unless something major changes again), just because of the way
> Apache, mod_perl, PHP, et. all have become modularized by
> Jean-Michel.  It's a better way to do things, but wreaks some havoc
> initially on the older distribs.
> 
> Nothing major to worry about it, but don't expect too much from
> MandrakeUpdate when it comes out (unfortunate, but no way around it).
> 
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