I use MandrakeUpdate when bringing a new system up to current patchlevel because I can select a few packages at a time -- but if you're up to date, it's better to just do a urpmi --auto-select.
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 19:27, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Well...urpmi is nice and all, and I use it when I want to upgrade specific > packages, but to just see a list of available updates and then > pick-and-choose them, I use MandrakeUpdate. Does MandrakeUpdate have a > commandline switch like --no-clean for starting it? > > Urpmi isn't really an option under the circumstances. It kindof requires that > you know what packages you want to update a priori. MandrakeUpdate does not. > > praedor > > On Friday 27 June 2003 08:01 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > Praedor Atrebates wrote: > [...] > > > It would be way nice if I could do a MandrakeUpdate at work/school > > > with my > > > laptop and select to save the downloaded rpms so I could go home, > > > connect up > > > to my desktop, and upgrade it too. MandrakeUpdate deletes all the > > > rpms it > > > downloads, and good thing else you would begin to seriously consume hdd > > > space. What I would like is an option to save the rpm downloaded by > > > MandrakeUpdate...perhaps to another directory or simply leave them in > > > their > > > cache directory until I elect to dump them. Make MandrakeUpdate default > > > behavior to delete the downloads but give an option to save them. > [...] > > I think if you run urpmi with --no-clean it will keep all of the updated > > rpms in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms when you do your updates. You can go home > > and transfer them to your un-updated machine, or leave them where they > > are, and add them as a source in urpmi. > > - -- > The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible > dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is > essential to the welfare of the public. > - --Justice Hugo Black > > GnuPG fingerprint: > D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD4DBQE+/P0maKr9sJYeTxgRAtLJAJd4XjMNqLDmbemFMxUdBb+E3tZyAKC3bsKF > rWizLtXseyhv6+YyyxPKww== > =Z4DD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html
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