On Fri Dec 29, 2000 at 05:23:45AM -0700, Traci Collins wrote:
> > Hi Traci. Can you, from a console, give me the results of:
> >
> > rpm -qa|grep Zope
> >
> > I think you must still have a Zope package installed somewhere because
> > there should be no conflicts (in fact, if you had everything from Zope
> > removed from the system, it shouldn't show up in MandrakeUpdate at
> > all). You might be missing something somewhere... please give me the
> > results of that output, then maybe I can see what the problem is.
>
> This is the problem. Thanks. Zope is now gone from the database and
> also from the update. Now, on the off chance that I would like to
> have the updated, secure, zope, how do you download and install
> updates (in this case a replacement) for packages you don't have
> installed? I could reinstall zope and get it back on the list but
> that obviously isn't going to get me what I would like since I would
> be back with a Mandrake Update program that wasn't working. Any
> suggestions?
Manually log into the mirror and go into the updates/7.2/RPMS
directory and download Zope* and then do rpm -ivh *.rpm to upgrade
them. With Zope, you'll need to remove Zope-zserver or Zope-pcgi
before doing this since you can only have one or the other installed.
But that's what you would do for any package that you don't currently
have installed and wanted to install. Doing the install from the CD
and then using MU to update would work as well, but it's one extra
step as far as I'm concerned, and one you really don't need to do.
> > Of course, the other problem might be that the mirror you're looking
> > at hasn't cleaned out the old Zope updated packages yet... are there
> > two different versions for each package? Ie a -1.1mdk and a -1.2mdk?
> > If so, select only the -1.2mdk packages. The mirrors should have
> > removed the -1.1mdk packages (old and obsolete now), but some of them
> > haven't yet.
>
> There was only one version of each package, they had a 7.2
> subdirectory so I don't think that the 1.1mdk packages would have
> been in the particular place. Since you know about the mirrors, could
> you answer a question? What is happening to the update mirrors? I
> haven't been able to get a list of updates from any of the American
> mirrors, I am always a little nervous about transatlantic updates
> just because I find that ftp from those distances often fails at some
> point during the process. Have the hosts decided not to host Mandrake
> updates any longer?
That's a question I don't have an answer for. I don't know what's
going on with the mirrors (although I've heard some people say it's
fixed now?), as I don't have anything to do with the mirrors. I just
deal with updates, so I keep an eye on that sort of thing.
One thing you can do if you are concerned, is manually ftp (use ncftp
or some other gui ftp client that resumes) the updates and then just
point MU to the local directory where you downloaded them. That way
if you do run into trouble, you can resume the download if you need
to. FYI, I've rarely had problems with overseas sites, and sometimes
they are faster than mirrors closer to home (I'm in Canada).
Hope that helps somewhat.
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