Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

2003-07-29 Thread charo
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 28 Jul 2003 3:32 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: 1) It is safe to do the urpmi.cron if you do not have a "cooker" source in your list of update sources. Texstars rpms are not cooker per se but set up to install on the latest mandrake version. He has them tidied up to stop conf

Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

2003-07-29 Thread charo
2) "cooker" is the developement side of Mandrake. The rpm's in cooker are for testing to make sure that dependencies and file calls etc, are satisfied. Cooker is the bleeding edge of developement and you should not use it if you don't do testing or programming. That is the safe thing to do.

Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

2003-07-29 Thread charo
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 28 Jul 2003 8:25 pm, charo wrote: this is a long history that I will try to make shorter, but please don't piss me off. Linux is though enough for a brand new linux user like me. Following someone suggestions from de list I added a cron.daily file urpmi.cron, with t

Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

2003-07-29 Thread charo
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 28 July 2003 12:25 pm, charo wrote: this is a long history that I will try to make shorter, but please don't piss me off. Linux is though enough for a brand new linux user like me. Following someone suggestions from de list I added a cron.daily file urpmi.cron, with the

Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

2003-07-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 28 Jul 2003 3:32 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > 1) It is safe to do the urpmi.cron if you do not have a "cooker" > source in your list of update sources. Texstars rpms are not cooker > per se but set up to install on the latest mandrake version. He has > them tidied up to stop conflicts etc. (

Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

2003-07-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 28 Jul 2003 8:25 pm, charo wrote: > this is a long history that I will try to make shorter, but please don't > piss me off. Linux is though enough for a brand new linux user like me. > > Following someone suggestions from de list I added a cron.daily file > urpmi.cron, with the content th

[newbie] best way of updating software

2003-07-28 Thread charo
this is a long history that I will try to make shorter, but please don't piss me off. Linux is though enough for a brand new linux user like me. Following someone suggestions from de list I added a cron.daily file urpmi.cron, with the content that follows: #!/bin/sh urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto