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Robert Meyer meyer_rm at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 19 15:17:03 EST 2004


Ah, but you miss the point.  I want to install a new package that has
dependancies.  Bunches of dependancies...  Up2date only updates stuff that's
already installed and you would guess that when RedHat posts updates, it would
post all of the dependancies, too.

Cheers!

Bob
--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> don't most rpm systems now come with automatic updaters?
> 
> e.g. mandrake - urpmi, redhat - up2date, connectiva, - apt-rpm. suse -
> yast online update etc etc.
> 
> 
> That was an excerpt from googlin. up2date works for me, has never let me down
> and there are tons
> of options for it. It will be continued even when ported to Fedora, so back
> at ya :P
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Meyer wrote:
> 
> >I was poking around last night on a RedHat box.  There appears to be nothing
> to
> >match the Mandrake 'urpmi' application.  'urpmi' does all of the cool stuff
> >that apt-get is supposed to do.  It will pull all of the dependancies when
> it
> >gets a package.  This is pretty cool and neatly defeats a lot of the
> criticisms
> >about package management.  After wonking around with apt-get on Sunday, I
> get a
> >much better appreciation for urpmi.
> >
> >In Mandrakeland, the graphical package manager uses 'urpmi' when you install
> >stuff so it gains the benefit of the auto dependancy stuff.
> >
> >Hey, Peter... It isn't in RedHat :-P
> >
> >Cheers!
> >
> >Bob
> >
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