Well, .. way back in 8.0 .. is still relatively new! Some Mandrake
fanatics, myself included, are still singing the praises of our odyssey
servers....... Show me 600+ days uptime on anything else!

Todd Lyons wrote:
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> flacycads wrote on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:27:56PM -0500 :
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> > I've never used urpmi- heard that it doesn't work good for kernels.
> 
> This was a problem way back with 8.0.  Since then there have been two
> important things added to urpmi:  skip.list and inst.list.  If a package
> is listed in inst.list, it will be installed instead of upgraded.  If a
> package is listed in skip.list, it will be ignored unless you
> specifically invoke it by name.  So installing a kernel with urpmi is
> now safe.
> 
> Blue skies...                   Todd
> - --
> ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious
>  anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you
>     will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
>       Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk
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