At 06:07 AM 1/21/01, Pixel wrote:
>"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > There is one place where Mandrake is REALLY suffering at trying to
> > gain acceptability into the enterprise. A non-gui update tool. Right
>
>MandrakeUpdate is a 99% gui tool. The effective stuff is so simple that i
>wonder
>why you ask for it ;p
>
>Just mirror the Mandrake/updates/7.2 (or whatever the version you're using)
>directory and rpm -Fvh * in cron and that's it!
That's a good start. It doesn't fully handle dependencies. I'm thinking
of the situation when package A, which used to depend on B, C, and D now
also depends on package E. "rpm -FVH *" won't install E, so A won't install.
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