I have the latest grpmi and MandrakeUpdate installed but am seeing a
couple of weird issues.
First of all, I have seen in the recent changelog for MandrakeUpdate
that userhelper is supposed to be used instead of kdesu. Mine still
brings up kdesu. Any idea why?
Second, MandrakeUpdate/grpmi doesn't deal properly with files in
/var/cache/grpmi. If the RPM that is going to be updated to exists
there already, grpmi assumes it was a previously aborted transfer and
tries to do an ftp "restart" on it where it left off. That is fine.
Actually that is good. Good work. The problem is that if the file is
all there, the ftp server returns no more data for it (this should be
interpreted "success") and closes the data connection properly. Still
good. However, grpmi at that point thinks that the retrieval failed for
some reason and prompts that there was an error. It didn't. It's all
there. It should go on to the next task.
More of an RFE, it would be nice if grpmi were more friendly when it
does find problems. The prompts it does give you don't give you much
choice. If a conflict is found you can either Force it or Skip the
whole batch of updates. Skipping just the current package would be
nice. There are others but I will leave it at that for now.
b.
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Brian J. Murrell InterLinx Support Services, Inc.
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