On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:58:47 -0500, "Tom Brinkman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > look in /etc/urpmi/inst.list > > > > # Here you can specify packages that need to be installed instead > > # of being upgraded (typically kernel packages). > > > ... > > So kernel's are installed (rpm -ivh), not upgraded (-Uvh). Works > > equally as well for all kernels, ie, gives you choices of current > > kernels, and then 'urpmi kernel-source' will get the appropriate > > source and upgrade it too. > > So what is the default behaviour? Say I were to install sylpheed or > mozilla, with a few additional libraries being sucked down by urpmi. > Would the program overwrite the old applications and libraries, or does > it make new folders for them? Is there a way to tell urpmi to overwrite > anything it finds (aside from your interesting suggestion, above), and is > this even a good idea? > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The easiest way to describe it is the urpmi will do exactly the same thing rpm will do. The difference is that urpmi reads and installs needed dependencies. The install process itself is the same regardless of using rpm directly or via urpmi. James
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