I've given up on MandrakeUpdate as a buggy and annoying program. I just use an ftp mirroring program to copy any new changes from the sources and then update manually. I did it over modem and now cable modem and have also done it over T3 and it always worked right so go for it. ;> *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Ian McLeod wrote: > Hi, > > I just asked Helix Update to update a > few apps, it chose to do the lot, so I > thought well why not? 30 or so megs of > download later (I use a modem, not a DSL > / cable connection) it politely informed > that there was a conflict with one of > the RPMs and died, with no trace any > where on my file system of any > downloaded RPMs that I could have tried > to install manually. > > Mandrake Update also seems to prefer to > install everything rather than somet > things - and it would be nice if these > applications would download and install > apps one at a time and allow to quit > gracefully (perhaps after next install) > during download - or even use a smart > 'resume' capable download manager in > case of connection loss. > > Any ideas? > >
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