On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:51:34PM +0200, Fran�ois Pons wrote: > > something like "urpmf --requires kernel" will do it, the problem is that this is > incomplete as some package may provides kernel, to find them, first try with > "urpmf --provides kernel" (as kernel-linus2.4 is problably required because a > kernel is required, you may have lost some media ?).
I did not know that urpmf provided these flags. I looked at urpmi and urpmq for them but didn't imagine urpmf would. Thanx! It would seem that "provides kernel" is something that has been added after kernel-2.4.18.16mdk-1-1mdk because urpmf --provides kernel shows that kernel-2.4.18.18mdk provides it (along with alsa, hackkernel and module-info) yet rpm -q --provides kernel shows nothing on my system. I am only on kernel-2.4.18.16mdk-1-1mdk and have not upgraded to kernel-2.4.18.18mdk yet. But what is interesting still is that I was successful in using rpm -Fvh (without any --force or --nodeps) to update my system to the most recent RPMS without having to install a kernel, yet MandrakeUpdate wanted me install kernel-linus2.4. There is still something inconsistant there. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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