"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> from the quill of Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > Woohoo! It's there (with lots of other new stuff!!) I think urpmi
> > > needs a "refresh" mode. :-)
> >
> > urpmi.update -a ??
>
> Will that actually retrieve and install all new packages in addition to
> updating the depslist et. al?
>
yep.
> I noticed that it uses something called autoirpm.update. Perhaps that's
> what does the actual package updating? I don't seem to have one on my
> system. What package can I find it in?
>
it is not put in the distrib as it is quite dangerous. It's purpose is not to
auto-update packages.
what you need is:
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" | xargs urpmi --auto
> This last kind of question seems to come up quite often. I am wondering
> if there is a tool needed to allow people to search RPMs at Mandrake for
> a file. Of course searching RPMs would be a good reason to buy the CD,
> which is good for Mandrake, I agree. But it does lack updates. A tool
> which you can ask "where is ________" and it goes to your install media
> (CD, ftp, http, etc.) searches (requests a search in the case of remote
> media) and gives you the most up to date RPM needed to get that file.
well, kindof rpmf ________ ?
