Vincent Danen wrote:
> How does what work? MandrakeUpdate? Pretty simple... you point it
> to a site and it tells you what's available and lets you
> download/install it. Like I said, I don't know if it (yet) will do
> what the Helix updater does (it was written initially as a means to
> download new updates for bad or vulnerable packages shipped in the
> distro). I don't usually use MandrakeUpdate myself preferring to
> just use rpm -Fvh * on my nfs mounted mirror.
No, that isn't how MandrakeUpdate works - it only reports update
candidates on those RPMs which you already have installed. A
blanket update like you are doing will get you lots of stuff you have
not already got and probably don't want, depending on whether F will
install those.
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