On Thursday 20 January 2005 13:04, Rick Kunath wrote: > I'm wondering what the best way to go about setting up my media sources > to insure that updated packages on PLF show up in updates inside the > Mandrake Control Center's Software Updates utility screen. > > I have PLF added as a source, but for example, in the latest Xine > updates, the PLF updated packages didn't show up as updates when I did > the rest of the latest round of updates. > > I had forced a PLF update prior to running MCC, and did check that the > Xine packages were actually there on the PLF mirror I have setup, but > they never appeared as updates. > > I received notification about the security updates via the Mandrake > security email list, so I knew to look for the updates. When I used the > MCC Install utility, there the packages were, and I installed them > without a hitch. > > Is there some way to get these PLF updated packages to show up as updates? > > Rick Kunath
The Mandrake Update GUI only lists updated packages from sources which are marked as 'update' sources when you defined them. In other words you must add the source with urpmi.addmedia --update plf blah blah Personally I only define the official update mirror as an update source because I have a cron job to automatically install updates, and I do not want to automatically install anything other than official updates. A simple way to check for updates to PLF and other sources is to use the Software Install GUI. Click on the 'Update Media' button to refresh the list of packages in all the sources, and then filter on 'All packages : By update availability' You will then see what updates are available from PLF and can choose whether to install them' derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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