On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:26, Paul Fotheringham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and using the graphical interface MandrakeUpdate. > > I have two questions. > > 1. How do I stop MU from deleting the rpms after they are installed? (I have a > second Mandrake 9.0 box that I would like to update over nfs using the same > rpms.) At the moment they seem to go to /var/cache/urpmi/rpms at which point > I have to quickly copy them over as they are being installed :)
If your are using urpmi from the command line you can use the switch --noclean and it won't erase the rpms. > > 2. I lost my connection ( using a modem unfortunately) during the > tetex-1.0.7-61 (63952KB) download and had hoped that it would be able to > resume after re-establishing the connection. This didn't seem to happen and > when I quit MU and restarted it attempted to install the partially downloaded > rpm, complained of a bad signature and promptly deleted what there was of the > rpm. Thankfully I had the common sense to back it up first... Is there any way > to resume a download? > > Any hints and tips appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Paul. > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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