On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 9:31 pm, T E wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just followed the instructions for Mandrake URPMI > updates on www.urpmi.org - and wow - if you haven't > already looked into this subject I highly suggest it! > > My question is this: How can I setup a urpmi update to > happen ONLY to packages installed? In other words, I > don't want any extra packages installed... I notice > that when I use Mandrake Update items such as Samba > are included in the updates even though I do not have > it installed. It then demands to install dependancies > etc (this also happend with the commands shown below). > Since this is for a firewall, I do not want anything > extra on there at all. Also and ideally it would run > on its own (maybe in a "cron" job, however that > happens?). > > BTW,I used the following commands to update urpmi: > urmpi.addmedia PlzWork \ > <ftp site of choice> \ > with ../base/hdlist.cz > > Then did urpmi.update -a > and > urpmi --auto-select > > ...it updated but threw in a bunch of extra crap too! >
When you added the update source if you had used the option urpmi.addmedia --update PlzWork ftp site of choice with ../base/hdlist.cz Then the source will be an "update" source which means you can use the command urpmi --update --auto-select and then only update sources will be considered when pulling packages. The way you did it, then any package which has a newer version on any of the sources will have been updated. But it will not have installed anything that was not already there. Now you have seen the wonders of urpmi, go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and get more fun sources. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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