[Gloucs] Package Management dist-upgrade

[Guy Edwards]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 11:39, John McKeown wrote:
> I saw an article at LWN on a
> "Package Management Experiment"
> http://lwn.net/Articles/50687/
> 
> says Mandrake's urpmi upgrade 
> from e.g. version 9.1 to 9.2
> is now almost as good as
> Debian's apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> urpmi.update -a
> urpmi --auto-select --no-verify-rpm --auto
> urpmi kernel
> 
> Has anyone tried this. Guy?

I've not really played with urpmi much which is a bit bad as it's
supposed to be one of the main reasons to use Mandrake.

Having said that... use this site:
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php
to give you quick easy commands to add extra install sources with
mandrake.

select your options then press "proceed to step 3" whcih will give you
the commands to type in. This includes the "Penguin Liberation Front"
addons which aren't included in the distribution for various reasons
e.g. Mplayer addons etc.