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.

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