[TriLUG] Mandrake URPMI question

Michael Hrivnak mhrivnak at triad.rr.com
Mon Apr 19 23:03:20 EDT 2004


I do this:

urpmi.update -f update_source
urpmi --update --auto-select

At which point it finds the packages that need to be updated, and then asks 
you if it should download and install them.  You can easily say no, and that 
should take care of your needs.

Michael

On Monday 19 April 2004 06:07 pm, Brian Weaver wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've got a question about the Mandrake urpmi utility. I'm pretty
> familiar with yum and it has the ability to let me know what packages
> need to be udpated with the command:
>
>   yum check-update
>
> Does anyone know of a way to do the same thing with urpmi? I know I can
> do a 'urpmi --auto-select', but this will actually install the packages.
> I want to know what, if any packages need to be update but I DO NOT want
> the update to occur.
>
> Any Suggestions?
>
> -Weave



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