On Friday 22 March 2002 02:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brook Humphrey wrote: > > I just used rpmdrake to uninstall libarts3 and in some really crazy time > > warp or something it uninstalled every kde2 app that I had installed
I have seen something similar with this. What I have noticed is that urpmi and rpmdrake have some interesting dependencies. With urpmi and rpmdrake I cannot uninstall any of the KDE2.2.2 main files without the corresponding KDE3.0 file also wanting to be uninstalled. I was trying to do this to cut myself down to just the libs from KDE2.2.2 and the full KDE3.0. I finally ended up doing this with a normal rpm -e command and it worked just fine, no extra dependencies. Another thing that would be nice to see is a sort of alternate connection for rpmdrake. I have had a horrible time recently with FTP sites (due I believe to the millions of people downloading the latest 8.2 :) and downloading my daily Cooker updates. Every time I update and change my server to something else then within a day it is also gone (can't ping it or anything for about a day or two and then it works again). This has happened to me now with 6 servers (all from Europe and mainly universities.) What would be nice is to say: I want this server, but if you can't reach this one then try this server. I'm not sure how the hdlist and synthlist are controlled, but if the lists are supposed to be essentially the same then maybe this would be possible. First it would try the main server and then the alternate if the main times out. It also appears that timeouts aren't working correctly. I'm not sure exactly why, but I have noticed that rpmdrake and urpmi will sit and wait and wait and wait. It appears that urpmi will timeout first on the description file and then after it has timed out there it will continue on to see if it can still download the hdlist or synthlist. And last but not least, as I haven't been able to update today I don't know if rpmdrake has been updated yet. RPM and it's constituents are all listed at version 4.0.4 I believe, however rpmdrake still requires 4.0.3. Not too big of a deal as it is most likely fixed already. Hopefully everything is easily understandable...because I'm still too tired to go back through and correct myself :) Justin T
