FC4t1 and up2date

J Z jz at linuxmail.org
Fri Mar 18 23:52:42 UTC 2005


I've also had success with up2date in the commandline.

Just use terminal and put in:
up2date --nox -u

You can also add --nosig if you don't want it to check for GPG keys.
Most packages I saw were not signed.

Hope it helps! 

-- JZ


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene C." <czar at czarc.net>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Subject: FC4t1 and up2date
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:04:48 -0500

> 
> For those who would like to use up2date --
> 
> The currently is a bug in up2date (already reported at least once in bugzilla)
> which does not allow selection or moving to the next step (downloading and
> then install) UNLESS there is an exception package to select.
> 
> So, until up2date is fixed, you can use it by adding a packages (that needs
> updating anyway) to the Package Exceptions and then select it when you run
> up2date.
> 
> I wish I understood yum better and it could probably do the just just fine but
> with the current conflicts in development, there is no easy way to select
> packages.  (OK Seth, tel me how to do it).
> --
> Gene
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