Julie Sloan wrote:
Sorry for the very long (what follows), but I've been at this point three times now, and each time I go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and start over with urpmi.removemedia, (then get the new sources) and then:
rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && update-menus -v -n && ldconfig && urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum && urpmi --auto-select --noclean
First of all you shouldn't be mixin all those commands together Julie. Certainly not 'rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && update-menus -v -n && ldconfig' _before_ updating your media and gettin updates. Even then, those commands are really only useful _after_ large daily 'unstable' cooker updates, specially when libs, system files, or xorg updates are involved. And then you should follow with a logout from your DE (destop environment, eg KDE), restart the X server, and log back in. Rarely, if ever, useful to do all that with 'stable' version Mandrake supplied updates (eg, 10.1, 10.0, 9.2 .....).
You do realize that --noclean is just an option to keep rpm d/l's after uprmi has installed them, right? Not normally somethin you need to do. A better option might be --keep. It will keep present software on the system, and skip the update one, if there's a conflict encountered, rather than stop an tell you that there's a problem an an some package(s) need to be removed. But even then, somethin not normally needed with 'stable' version updates.
(see 'man urpmi' for better explainations ;)
As far as --no-md5sum, I don't think you wanna do that either. It disables protection from d/l'g corrupted packages from bad mirrors. I believe what you want is to add these lines to the beginning of /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg (brackets included)
{
downloader: wget
verify-rpm: 0
}That will make urpmi use wget rather than default to curl. wget is often better if the mirror doesn't wanna play nice, or is very busy. 'verify-rpm: 0' (0 = false) disables package signature checking, an you just know you're gonna say to go ahead an install anyway ;) Checking the signatures, specially on contrib packages isn't much of a big deal anyhow. Better that you have trust in the mirror and/or the provider (eg, PLF, CAE, Thac, etc.)
urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select -v is about all you should need. If you get the dreaded "in order to update, the following packages need to be removed" message, an you're not sure that's a good idea (most often isn't), then run
urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select -v --keep
Now if you (make the mistake :) of upgrading somethin like KDE to a 3rd party's newer version than your Mandrake came with, then run all those commands I said (above) were only usefull for large cooker updates. IMO tho, you'd be better off just runnin cooker than goin for those 3rd party updates. Probly less problems ;) YMMV
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