Bill Mullen wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > I had actually suggested that earlier (everything except the kernel),
> > but I believe he wanted a way to do the actual update using a GUI.
> I strongly suspect that when the OP did the urpmi.addmedia command to add
> his Cooker source, he did not use the "--update" option, which denotes
> that source as one that the GUI update tool will consider.
I did what James Sparenberg wrote: urpmi.addmedia cooker-updates
file://mnt/mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz. See my
post of Sun, 07 Sep 2003 23:47:57 -0400.
> AIUI, while "urpmi --auto-select" will draw upon all sources (as will the
> regular GUI installer app), the GUI /update/ tool will only look at media
> specifically marked as update sources. As these are separate collections
> in released distros, only in Cooker is the "main" source also an "update"
> source. I could well be wrong, but I think that's what's going on here.
Surely someone must know. Why does the X tool even exist if it can only
get the job done for the person who wrote it, if even then? I don't mind
using cli at all, but my goal was to figure out the X tool. I've gotten
nowhere with that.
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