On Tuesday 10 Jan 2006 19:08, Tom wrote:
> Peter Watson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 Jan 2006 01:31, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> >>>Duggie
> >>
> >>If you leave out the --update option on the urpmi --auto-select, it
> >> should get all updated packages from any source, not just those from the
> >> update source. Try this:
> >>
> >>urpmi.update -a
> >>urpmi --auto-select
> >
> > Thanks I'll try this out
> >
> > Duggie
>
> I'd suggest when upgrading official to community, you're likely
> to get a fairly large number of updates, an the mirrors aren't all
> that reliable. So after you've installed community main an contrib
> sources (at least two different mirrors each, plf too if you have
> plf packages), disable (SMM) your official sources, add this to the
> top of /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg with the brackets,
>
> {
> downloader: wget
> verify-rpm: 0
> }
>
> That will use wget as the default, which is more reliable than
> curl. It will also ignore signatures that are bad or unsigned on
> packages (usually contrib's or plf). Then...
>
> 'urpmi.update -caf && urpmi --auto-select -v --keep'
>
> ...if you get failures due to md5sums, then
>
> 'urpmi.update -caf --no-md5sum && urpmi --auto-select -v --keep'
>
> See the man pages for what the switches to urpmi.update an urpmi
> actually do. -caf is three different switches, && just tells your
> system to do the second command only if the first one was
> successful. Also, after a lot of updates, it's usually prudent to
> log out, re-start X, and then log back in.
Tom
that's exactly what I needed thanks very much
Duggie
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