On Thursday September 19 2002 10:01 am, Jim Gentry wrote:
> I have been updating MDK 9.0RC2 with urpmi for the past several days.
> Yesterday I noticed that there was a RC3 being released. Does
> updating RC2 daily with urpmi give me the same system as downloading
> and installing RC3 .iso's?
Yes. Actually if you've updated everything 'urpmi --auto-select'
lists after last Sat., you're past RC3, gettin closer to the Final.
> Second, after updating with urpmi, what is the recommended way to
> enable the just installed changes? I have been rebooting (windoze
> habit), but I know Linux does not always need a reboot except for a
> new kernel.
I believe it's a good idea to log out of your desktop and restart X
after a some Gnome or KDE updates. Rather than reboot, I use this alias
in bashrc after doin a lot of current cooker updates. 'upall'
(alias upall='rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && update-menus -n &&
ldconfig') That's all one line. I've yet to see anything in the man
page for update-menus for the -n switch, but the Mdk developers
recommend it all the time ;) When in doubt, I reboot, there's other
things besides a new kernel that require it.
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