Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
My favorite mirror is my rsync: /mnt/mandrake/cooker, updated about an
hour ago, after having updated prior to the original cooker install on
Friday, and again before running update from floppy boot on Saturday.
OK:
urpmi.addmedia cooker-updates file://mnt/mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS
with ../base/hdlist.cz
I found what appeared to be correct syntax in man urpmi.addmedia. I got
output messages that appeared to confirm it to be doing what I needed it
to do. However, when I went to X to run "update software", I got the
following:
"The list of updates is void. This means that either there is no
available update for the packages installed on your computer, or you
already installed all of them."
Why must this be so difficult?
What was the exact command you used to update?
Exactly what I typed into the post you replied to.
There is no "update software" command that I know of.
The way you would update software using urpmi is with the command:
urpmi -v --auto-select
After I rsync tonight I'll give that a try. However, I was trying to figure out how to accomplish the task in X. Had you read above you should have noticed the word "X". "Update software" is not a CLI command, it is a menu selection, one of too many now that URPMI in X is divided into different main menu choices. I used urpmi.addmedia from the command line because doing the equivalent from X is too obtuse to figure out.
I did read that you were trying to update from within X. I think, more specifically, you may have meant that you were trying to use the GUI (Graphical User Interface) to do the update, since, of course, you can run a command line from X.
I believe that when you run the Mandrake Update (to which I think you were referring) it only uses the media labeled "updates". If there are no updates available on that specific source you will get the response that everything is already installed. This would be a correct response because all of the updates available on that source are already installed.
If you want to update the machine using all available sources:
-As root run "urpmi.update -a" on the command line to make sure urpmi knows what is available for updates
-Launch "Install Software" from the menu and select "All packages, by update availability".
You will then get a list of updates that are available from all of the different urpmi sources.
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