Particularly frustrating is that in KDE2 when the list of conflicts pops up,
it appears in a window too big for the screen which cannot be resized to fit
?!?..
However, by removing uninstalling the conflicting rpms temporarily, so the
update works. Then, if you attempt to re-configure or use the previously
removed rpms, with the update CD still in, it appeared to detect a problem
and perform the remainder of the upgrade...
Quite neat I guess, but I also agree, the update disk ought to be smarter.
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Turgut Kalfaoglu
Sent: 04 April 2001 09:01
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Mandrake Update on 7.2
Mandrake update is too frustrating to use..
As a mortal user would, I clicked on SELECT ALL (which doesnt work, btw,
unless if you first click on one of the items listed) and clicked on DO
UPDATES. It gave me a warning about one of the packages, I clicked on FORCE.
It gave me a page of errors from rpm, blah blah conflicting with blah blah.
I think Mandrake Update needs more intelligence to figure out these
conflicts. If it's a new lib* it needs, it should fetch and install it
FIRST,
before attempting to install an application, for example. -turgut
