bigjohn Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I've managed to get the mirror's for updates working OK - excellent. The mandrake 10 community seems good, a lot quicker than 9.1 - Not sure if that's down to the 2.6 kernel or what. Anyway, when using mandrake update, with all the options checked I was wondering if there is any way to make it, so it updates like gentoo? i.e. when I do emerge -u nvidia (for example) it downloads the updated/newest version, installs it and then uninstall's the old. It would be nice if anyone knows if there's a way of setting mandrake update to work like that. I don't mean writing scripts and stuff, because that's way, way over my head. regards John p.s. sorry if that sounds like a stupid question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn Posted March 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 Well, I've been installing all the updates that I think I need. But could anyone tell me if i'm looking at the update section in my mandrake control centre, am I looking at all the updates that I need for my system or am I looking at all the updates available, even if I haven't actually got XXXXXXX installed (and yes I appreciate that some of the stuff might be part of a package and I just don't use it i.e. like kdepim for example)?? regards John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mert Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 Well, I've been installing all the updates that I think I need. But could anyone tell me if i'm looking at the update section in my mandrake control centre, am I looking at all the updates that I need for my system or am I looking at all the updates available, even if I haven't actually got XXXXXXX installed (and yes I appreciate that some of the stuff might be part of a package and I just don't use it i.e. like kdepim for example)?? regards John The updates that you see are only updates for the packages installed on your system. urpmi --auto-select will update your system using the urpmi command line tool. It's interactive and it will require you to select Y/n before the update actually begins. I think there's a command line parameter to bypass the Y/n confirmation though. urpmi.update -a will update your local cache of package names etc., similar to emerge sync in gentoo. cheers Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn Posted March 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 Thanks Mike. The only reason that I asked was because there's even stuff to update gnome, and I'm sure I didn't install it. Though I figure that if something in kde needs the gtklibs etc, then maybe it's some spooky and convoluted dependency thing. Regards John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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