On Sun Nov 12, 2000 at 11:46:50PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote:
> > Ok. Why are you trying to update MandrakeUpdate then? Did you
> > manually download it? The MU and grpmi on that CD is already -17mdk.
> > Why are you downloading and installing the same thing?
>
> Yes, 17 is installed. Running MandrakeUpdate development update
> offers to update MandrakeUpdate-7.2-17mdk to MandrakeUpdate-7.2-18mdk
> and grpmi-7.2-17mdk to grpmi-7.2-18mdk.
Ok... *don't* do development updates! Those are cooker files! That's
why the install failed... you need the new rpm because -18mdk is
built for rpm 4.
> > I don't know what you did, Ron, but two points here: a) I have no
> > idea what this librpmio thing is... it doesn't exist for 7.2. b) why
> > are you trying to update -17mdk with another (identical) -17mdk?
>
> I strictly followed the instructions in Mandrake's Advisory below to
> update 7.2 (note that all this is over YOUR signature):
Not really. If you looked at the component list, you would see that
-17mdk is listed in there, not -18mdk which was the attempted
download. Also look closer at this:
> Problem Description:
>
> The following updates to version 7.2 include some security fixes,
> some
> bug fixes, and packages to introduce KDE 2.0 final. These updates
> are
> already incorporated in the ISOs available for download. md5
You downloaded the ISOs thus "these updates are already
incorporated"...
> How about you try a MandrakeUpdate for 7.2 on these two RPMs using
> the ftp://rpmfind.net default mirror - you should strike exactly the
> same problem?
Nope, I won't try it... I'm not interested in upgrading my box to
cooker at this point... =)
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