On Friday 23 February 2001 07:27, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> > > No, that won't work. rpm -Uvh *.rpm will.Freshen will ignore
> > > new rpms that were not there before.
> >
> > Exactly - that's why I use freshen. You need to watch for the extra
> > packages, like when a single package splits
Ed Wilts wrote:
> Exactly - that's why I use freshen. You need to watch for the extra
> packages, like when a single package splits into two, manually. rpm -Uvh
> will also install packages that weren't installed before so unless you want
> to install EVERYTHING, don't do this. My method uses
Thanks guys for a bunch of real helpful info. Since I am fairly new to
this, it will take me a while to comprehend/try out/test all this
input. If I need more help I will either ask or admit that the cooker
isn't for me :)
Jens
Paul R Streitman wrote:
> I have been following this discussion, and I must say that I am confused!
> MandrakeUpdate worked very well for me (until whatever happened that caused
> it to crash every time), but I have yet to get rpmdrake/urpmi working at
> all. When I start rpmdrake, it never give
I have been following this discussion, and I must say that I am confused!
MandrakeUpdate worked very well for me (until whatever happened that caused
it to crash every time), but I have yet to get rpmdrake/urpmi working at
all. When I start rpmdrake, it never gives me a list of RPMs, either
curr
> > No, that won't work. rpm -Uvh *.rpm will.Freshen will ignore
> > new rpms that were not there before.
>
> Exactly - that's why I use freshen. You need to watch for the extra
> packages, like when a single package splits into two, manually.
You may consider urpmi. It has exactly the ta
On Friday 23 February 2001 05:43, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Ed Wilts wrote:
> > This will mirror the entire cooker tree and you do can do regular updates
> > from there with an rpm -Fvh.
>
> No, that won't work. rpm -Uvh *.rpm will.Freshen will ignore
> new rpms that were not there before.
Exact
Ed Wilts wrote:
> This will mirror the entire cooker tree and you do can do regular updates
> from there with an rpm -Fvh.
No, that won't work. rpm -Uvh *.rpm will.Freshen will ignore
new rpms that were not there before.
> The easiest is to get a semi-recent copy of the Cooker ISO image a
On Thursday 22 February 2001 16:56, you wrote:
> I recently decided to explore the cooker and all it's wonders but have
> been stumped about how to set up a system. The instructions on the
> Mandrake pages explain how to set up a mirror of the cooker on your
> own system but there is no reference
I recently decided to explore the cooker and all it's wonders but have
been stumped about how to set up a system. The instructions on the
Mandrake pages explain how to set up a mirror of the cooker on your
own system but there is no reference of how to set up an actual
system. It seems to me that
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