Murray J. Root wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:55:28AM +0100, Pascal wrote: > >>Le Vendredi 14 F�vrier 2003 02:42, Jay DeKing a �crit : >> >>>Yes, I've had this problem for at least two versions - so bad, in fact, >>>that I've been doing all of my updates from the command line via urpmi. I >>>open Konqueror on my favorite mirror and sort by date, rpm -q for the >>>newest packages to see if I need to update them, and run urpmi for them if >>>necessary. >> >>urpmq --auto-select --media <youy cooker media name> >>is your friend to examine updated cooker packages for your system. >> > > > I just run rpmdrake to see the list and then do urpmi in a term. > > ALthough now that you mention it, output the urpmq to a text file, edit > that for the stuff I can't use (initscripts, mostly), and give it to > urpmi ... hmmm > # echo initscripts >> /etc/urpmi/skip.list # urpmi.update -a # urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpm
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