Hi,
On Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 12:46:23, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> YaST2 should also get a decent way to update existing packages. This
> is currently (as of 10.0) a real pain to do, there's no obvious option.
> You have to select "package categories", go to "zzz all", right click
> on the right pane, "this list..." -> "update if newer version available".
YaST -> System Update does exactly that...
> And while y2pmsh has a "newer" command to show what updates are
> available, it doesn't have a "install-newer" (or similar) command, so
> you have to specify them yourself from the list shown by "newer".
y2pmsh
upgrade
solve
commit
> Now, to come back to YOU... The only real added value of YOU is the
> following additional information:
> - description of the update
> - severity (critical, security, minor, ...)
- scripts
- pre/post install messages
> That information is not available in repository metadata formats as of
> now (neither in YaST2, nor apt-rpm, nor rpm-md and I guess it's not
> possible in red/open-carpet either).
Its included in "our" enhanced rpm-md that we use for the update
dirs.
Henne
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