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 and
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 task to
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
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
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 a
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 into two,
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 of
