stop mailing me it way to macht i just traying to instal mandrake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Wilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ron Stodden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] How to set up a cooker system and keeping it current ?
> On Friday 23 February 2001 05:43, Ron Stodden wrote:
> > Ed Wilts wrote:
> > > This will mirror the entire cooker tree and you do can do regular
updates
> > > from there with an rpm -Fvh.
> >
> > No, that won't work. rpm -Uvh *.rpm will. Freshen will ignore
> > new rpms that were not there before.
>
> Exactly - that's why I use freshen. You need to watch for the extra
> packages, like when a single package splits into two, manually. rpm -Uvh
> will also install packages that weren't installed before so unless you
want
> to install EVERYTHING, don't do this. My method uses a lot less disk
space
> and tests the packages that I need or want to test. Why break my system
> installing packages that I have no need for or start up a gazillion
daemons,
> some of which could have security holes?
>
> --
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
