[plug] Mandrake updates

[Michael Collard]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 02:19 +0800, J Michael Gilks wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:58 am, Michael Collard wrote:
> > Sounds normal to me, that is the upgrading via 'urpmi --auto-select'. It
> > means that your sources contain a source of a heap of newer packages
> > than what you have installed. You would get this for example if you
> > added a source for the cooker and had installed an official version. I
> > am however amazed it worked for you... the last time I tried this a few
> > days ago I had to recover the system from a backup :(
> >
> This wasn't an upgrade, just updating 10.1 which is strange because the GUI 
> showed no updates and the CLI showed a shipload of them.
> I did try to do an upgrade on one machine by just changing the sources a 
> couple of days ago and like you am still trying to get it back to where it 
> was.

The GUI only uses the 'update' media to check for updates, urpmi does no
such thing hence the difference :)

Cheers
Michael Collard