Le Mercredi 13 Novembre 2002 17:30, vous avez �crit :
> Levi Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I found this after searching 30 minutes on the web :
> > >
> > > urpmi.update -a
> > > urpmi --auto-select
> > >
> > > If this work flawlessly, why is it not advertised more ?
> > >
> > > I didn't found any mention of this on Mandrake web site, and I think
> > > this is worth a first page...
> >
> > You're preaching to the choir.  I've always been mystified that Mandrake
> > doesn't tout urpmi more than it does.  It's amazing how many Debian
> > users I've encountered who think that Debian is the only distro with
> > that functionality.  *I* didn't even find out about it until I mentioned
> > that the only thing urpmi couldn't do was do a distribution upgrade on
> > Slashdot and one of the Mandrake developers corrected me (I think it was
> > Chmouel...).
>
> Actually, I think a whole dist upgrade was not so much "working"
> before the 9.0 version of urpmi, or at least partially broken,
> that's why.

But now, it is fairly robust : in the betas processes, as my hardware wasn't 
well recognized, i did a minimal install (65Mo), and i could get up to the 
graphical boot after some urpmi (like urpmi gnome, urpmi X, and things like 
this.) like if i had done a normal install.

Stef

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