Jay DeKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 12 October 2001 11:15, I was honored with this communique: > > > Actually, rpmdrake should correctly execute pre-/postinstall scripts. > > > Disabling kernel update is a poor man workaround :-( > > > > This is really true ? This is surprising since this is "rpm" task to > > execute these scripts. > > Yes, rpmdrake *should* do these things correctly, but it has a history of > *not* doing these things correctly all of the time - I still never use it to > do the actual work, I use it only as a reference tool, preferring to do the > updates manually. I kind of miss having it remind me of kernel updates, but > if it helps keep newbies from trashing their kernels, I can live with the > minor inconvenience.
This is not a problem of rpmdrake as it uses urpmi for that, urpmi provides possibility to never update package chosen by the user (but not to install them instead of skipping them). See /etc/urpmi/skip.list. Fran�ois.
