Hi there, guys. I guess some of you noticed I disappeared for a while - was off on holiday in Australia. Anyway, on my return I immediately tried to update Cooker (*sigh*...addictions) and had several problems. Firstly, urpmi --auto-select won't work because it wants to remove the basesystem package before it will continue with upgrading, and obviously I don't want that! Updating manually with rpmdrake, so far I've found that coreutils is one of the packages that's demanding basesystem be removed, but it's not the only one (I added coreutils to /etc/urpmi/skip.list and retried the auto-select, still had the problem, so there must be at least one more problem package) - haven't found the other one yet. Is there an easy way to find out which packages are demanding basesystem be removed? Anyone know *why* they're demanding it? I have basesystem-9.0-3mdk and coreutils-4.5.3-2mdk, currently - my Cooker is (or was, as I've since manually upgraded a lot of packages) current as of 3rd December or so. Secondly, manually upgrading stuff I've found several mirrors are missing files. My usual mirror (ftp.lip6.fr) and several others (including ftp.club-internet.fr and ftp.sunet.se) are missing some RPMs, for some reason - including important ones, like perl-GTK2 and rpm itself. After some searching I finally found a mirror with all the files intact, ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/ , so I guess it's just a mirroring problem somewhere. Hope this helps someone... -- adamw
