> > > urpmq NEVER reports installed packages. It ALWAYS reports available > > packages. > > My mistake. > > I know see it more clearly. > > I just checked, and in fact, my packages are not installed. > > Example : > $rpm -q gedit > gedit-1.199.0-1mdk > $urpmq -m -r gedit > gedit-2.0.0-1mdk > $gedit --version > Gnome gedit 1.199.0 > > All is right. > rpm, urpmq and urpmi work. > > rpmdrake downloads, tells the package is already install (that's what's > wrong) > and don't install. >
O.K. so it is a bug in rpminst, it incorrectly interprets urpmq output it seems. Francois, can you look into it or is new version ready for cooker-testing already to avoid wasting time on old rpminst? -andrej > My package stays in the old version, which is why it reappears the next > time. > > I have a score of packages behaving like that. > > CU > CPHIL > > -- > A novice was trying to fix a broken lisp machine by turning the > power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly, > "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding > of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The > machine worked.
