Have you considered just downloading the rpms and installing them
manually?
On 28 Dec 2000 01:59:43 -0700, Traci Collins wrote:
> I'm hoping someone can help me resolve a problem I am having with the
> Mandrake Update Link. There is a security update for the entire Zope
> system, if I avoid updating any of my zope code everything works just
> fine. Unfortunately the update zope release has a conflict with the
> installed zope release, even after I used rpm to remove all of the
> existing zope packages from the rpm database. It asks me if I want to
> force the update and I say yes, hoping that Mandrakesoft didn't
> really put up a series of update packages that wouldn't work with
> Mandrake 7.2. What happens is I get an error message that runs off my
> screen, even at 1248X1024, and there is nothing I can do that will
> show me the bottom of the error message. I think it is waiting for me
> to make a decision and tell it how to proceed. Because I can't see
> the question or get to the bottom to make a response the update hangs
> at that point. I can kill it and get on with life but the zope
> packages keep coming up whenever I run update and with a serious
> security problem I would like to do the update just in case I ever
> want to use it.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed with the update
> given the extremely long error screen?
>
> Traci
>
>
> civileme wrote:
> >
> > OK, I looked it over.
> >
> > I had some updating to do anyway and I did a few packages from each of 4 of
> > the 5 sites. rpmfind might be listed but doesn't have a 7.2 directory. All
> > of the 4 sites worked.
> >
> > Update is sensitive to how people mirror the site.... If the timestamps are
> > not mirrored properly the site can try to load things you have already
> > updated, or just say there is nothing to update. If the permissions are
> > wrong, the update fails and it redisplays the list of things to update.
> >
> > Civileme
>
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> Colorado Mountain College
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