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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] getting cooker as update from 8.2
From:       Han <han () mijncomputer ! nl>
Date:       2002-03-31 6:58:35
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Jeremy Salch (salch@granbury.com) wrote:
> On Saturday 30 March 2002 07:00 pm, you wrote:
> > I would like to run cooker and I have 8.2 installed.  Is ther an
> > easy way to update 8.2 to cooker , so I do not use 24 hours to
> > download all?
> >
> > I have tried to use rpmdrake and included a cooker mirror in my list
> > but it is not obvious to me how to get it to work. I see some yellow
> > flags indicating new packages, but in essense I just want to
> > download all new versions of packages installed and then install
> > these.
> 
> OK   do just what you did..   set up rpm drake  or urpmi  whichever
> you prefer, with a cooker mirror as a source..  then in RPM drake
> select to update that source  so it have the most recent file list
> from the cooker mirror  and then click the view tab that says flat
> list and then click the checkmark that is on the bar where it says
> packages / version / installed version   ..  that will select all
> packages that are avaliable..  then click the install / remove and it
> should do it.
> 
> 
> if you want to be able to watch the progress run rpmdrake from a x
> terminal.. 
>  
> 
> 
> or if you want to do this with urpmi  just type
> 
> urpmi.update "your cooker source name or blank for a list"  urpmi
> --auto-select  'this will download all avaliable updates.' 
> 
> that should do it 

You missed the updating of /etc part.


Groetjes, Han.
-- 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software

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