On 23 Oct 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsr�d) writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > We already have up2date and rpmfind.
>
> Well, apparently `up2date' is a network-only tool, isn't it?
>
> We were in a situation where user wants to compile something and lacks
> `libRKC.so.1.0'.
>
> With the `urpmi' suite, you enter "urpmf <libname>", it gives you the list
> of packages which match in their provides.
[bill@fraser bill]$ rpm --redhatprovides libRKC.so.1.0
Canna-libs-3.5b2-49
> Then, you just enter, as an example, "urpmi xemacs-libs", the program will
> ask you to enter CDROM Installation #2 in your cd tray, and will install
> the package and any requires, automatically. Of course, this is an example
> applying to CDROM installs -- if you had installed with FTP, it would have
> remembered the FTP host and account info and would automatically log in to
> fetch the RPM's -- etc.
Great, unless you did an FTP install from a local machine by mounting
the CDs on loopback ... in which I want it to *forget* where I did the
install from :o)
Seriously, that's only useful if you have not applied any updates at
all, and I don't always have the install CDs lying around. On the
other hand, I nearly always keep a copy of the install CD contents on
my hard drive somewhere, at least for a few weeks after the install.
> As far as I know, up2date is far from providing these handy features, am I
> wrong?
The combination of rpm itself with up2date, rpmfind and other tools
is useful. There are certainly features that could be improved or
added; the equivalent of "apt-get dist-upgrade" seems to be missing,
unless up2date has been designed to cope with that? But certainly
most of the useful functionality is available.
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