On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:56:43PM +1000, Ron Stodden 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.
-F is for freshen, so it will not install anything that is not
installed. Ie. if I have gnome-libs installed and not
gnome-libs-devel and do -F on both files, only gnome-libs will be
updated if it's newer. gnome-libs-devel is not touched because it is
not already installed.
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