[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fran�ois Pons) writes:
> David Hedbor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hello. Since apt-get no longer works (files used by apt-get aren't
>> updated anymore), I am forced to use urpmi for "auto"-updating. In
>> general it's ok, but there are a couple of major problems:
>>
>> 1) urpmi deletes downloaded packages that are not installed. This
>> seems to occur when the application is started - any packages not
>> to be installed will be removed. This is extremely annoying, for
>> example in this scenario:
>> - start urpmi --auto-select
>> - stop process after downloading 200 MB
>> - start urpmi <somepackage>
>> - start urpmi --auto-select => downloading starts from the
>> beginning
>>
>> Packages should be deleted only if they are obsolete (i.e older than
>> installed) or installed. The best solution, used by apt-get is not
>> to delete anything automatically, with a command by the user to
>> flush when desired.
>
> This is the current behaviour of urpmi, will be changed maybe.
>
> You can use --noclean to avoid this.
I think the default behavior really shouldn't be to downloaded but not
installed and still valid packages. That flag is nice to know about though.
>> 2) urpmi often fails with dependencies. For example I just upgraded
>> openssh. "urpmi openssh' failed with a dependency on an old version
>> of openssh-askpass. I had to manually specify it. This was extra
>> annoying since I got the original failure after downloading 50 MB
>> rpms which weren't installed due to the failed dependencies, and
>> subsequently deleted as described in issue #1.
>>
>> Summary: I _really_ miss my apt-get!
>
> This is a bug on urpmi which has to be fixed.
Nice to hear, especially since it's the main reason for #1 to occur.
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