Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
> Jose wrote:
>
>> Charles A Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> As of this morning if rpmdrake is used to to update pkgs on a system
>>> currently running cooker, rpmdrake is STILL attempting to install
>>> the packages rather
>>> than upgrade them, so because of conflics with the already installed
>>> pkgs none
>>> can be done.
>>>
>>> Today when there are only 12 pkgs, downloading them manually and then
>>> installing as a group with rpm -Uvh *rpm is not that much of a pain.
>>> But if I go 2 or 3 days there can be as many as 40 or 50 pkgs which
>>> need to be upgraded and doing that many manually IS a pain.
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
>> Have you also noticed when doing cooker updates with rpmdrake how it
>> seems to download rpms that have no dependencies to other rpms. For
>> example, a while back i wanted to download XFree86, but it also
>> insisted on installing glibc and all its dependencies. When I ran
>> rpm from a command prompt, it installed X successfully (and
>> functioned) without a newer glibc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> rpmdrake is just a frontend to rpm isn't it? Maybe just different
> switches are being set when you use rpmdrake? Just a guess...
>
> mike
>
Rpmdrake is a frontend for urpmi. urpmi attempts to handle
denpendencies between rpms.
