Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

[Eric Fernandez]

Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh 
   



(BTW, if you did
 

not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the
   

exploit starts
 

circulating).  I updated all the sources but urpmi
   

--update
 

--auto-select told me that everything is up to date. 
   

Tried the
 

graphical updater, the same story.  I ended up
   

downloading the new RPMs
 

and installing them manually.  How am I supposed to
   

trust DrakeUpdate
 

and urpmi?

This is something Mandrake can learn from SuSE. 
   

Their online update
 

works perfectly every time.

Avi

Maybe you should check your mirror. Did you try urpmq -f to check the 
new packages are available in your URPM base ? I guess you did an 
urpmi.update -a too before trying the update ? There was no error message ?

Eric


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