On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:31, Chris Knowles wrote:
> >From the man page:
> 
>       ‐d, ‐‐download
>         download  packages  only,  do  not install them.  This option is
>       provided so that you can override the   configuration  option   "Do not
> install packages after        retrieval."  It is mutually exclusive   with the
> ‐‐install option.

Also useful to note is that when packages are downloaded, but not
installed, they go into /var/spool/up2date .

Also, are you sure your whole computer is locking up?  Or just up2date
and rpm?   You really shouldn't have to reboot your whole computer just
because of something with up2date.

--Jeremy

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