> Attempting to run urpmi --auto-select, It told me that "..some files are missing. > You may want to update your urpmi database"
Curt - yes, you are confusing the two databases. "Updatedb" is a command that runs every night (4:00am) and when finished it contains a database of all the files that you have on your drive at that point in time. That way you can 'locate' a file and have the system search through this database to find your file. It's quite a bit faster than the 'find' method. The other (urpmi) is how we upgrade the RPM database -- a database of all *packages* on a system. Packages contain files. They also contain a lot of information about what a package needs, what a package offers, what dependencies it needs and so forth. For many "personal" files this would be overkill, and you don't have RPMs for your pr0n :) right? Since urpmi updates the package database - then it has to be able to remove and install packages. updatedb doesn't do anything except build an index of what files are already present. It could be argued that this stuff should be part of the filesystem level. I'm not a filesystems expert but doing so might eliminate a lot of extra work. I'm not a college CS major (although I took many CS college courses at a jr. college and that was a long time ago) and thus some of the stuff is over my head on the reiserfs paper sites but he does talk a lot obout abstracting objects. Filenames are objects but there's a lot of other possible things that could be objects too. > Curt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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