Re: Using rpmfind to find rpm updates

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 10:30:16 EDT


On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:18:04AM +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> After adding the autoupgradeURL entry to the config file things started
> happening but there are other problems as you can see from the output below.
> Perhaps someone could help me with the error and perhaps explain:
> - why db3-utils and db3-devel are included when they is not installed on the
> machine

  Well I worked on RH-6.1 to RH-6.2 autoupgrade and forcing installation
of all the db packages was really helping ... it's somewhere hardcoded
in autoupgrade.c

> - how to prevent the rpm command from being run automaticly.

  Hum ... add an option and the associated code :-)

> - can I add more autoupgradeURL's for things like the powertools?

  yep basically there is no limit on the number of URLs

> I would also still like to be able to use
> rpmfind --upgrade samba
> and have it return the packages appropriate for RH6.2, now it lists about 30
> RPM's from 6.2, 6.2 powertools, 7.0 and 7.1

  Well that's a completely different behaviour. the code for
--upgrade and --autoupgrade are completely differents

Daniel

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