On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:20:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The "--update" switch tells urpmi to update the system from the *update urpmi source only*.
Examples:
"urpmi --updates --auto-select" will update everything from the *updates* urpmi source.
"urpmi --auto-select" will update the machine from *all* urpmi
sources.
Is it 'update', or 'updates'? I wonder if I did the wrong one because after I rebooted all hell broke loose. There were scary messages on boot. X loaded, but when I tried to log in, I was told /home didn't exist! (the message was something like 'you could try to use /root, but it won't work' ;).
An upgrade still had problems, so I re-installed (it's handy to have /home is on a separate partition), reinstalled Sylpheed and everything is exactly as it was, bar a few things in /etc.
If I got the update switch wrong, would updating from all sources completely fubar my setup like that?
Richard
It is "--update". I apologize for the mistype in my example.
I don't think it would do anything at all if you typed in --updates. I believe it would exit and tell you that --updates is not a valid option.
As far as what has happened to your system...whether or not updating from all of your sources will fubar your system depends on what sources you have specified.
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