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mandrake's rpmdrake
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- Subject: mandrake's rpmdrake
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:43:49 +0200 (IST)
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rpmdrake is the drak tool that serves as an interface for package
management through urpmi.
You can generally do most of the things from the command-line using urpm*
commands, but (1) this is not easy (it seems that those programs weren't
meant for mere mortals to work with) and (2) The one thing you cannotdo is
the equivalent of 'apt-get upgrade': a command to update your system from
the mirrors.
urpmi keeps a cache of downloaded packages at /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ . One
problem I encountered was that (because it somehow had a problem with my
proxy settings: a seperate bug) it has created zero-sized files there, and
later installation of files failed.
This is probably one thing to check if you try to download a package and
immedietly get an error that it can't be installed. Generally the files in
this directory a deletable (at least when rpmdrake is not actively
downloading/installing)
I also found it quite useful to look at the output it spits to it standard
output. If you suspect problems with rpmdrake then the first debugging
step is to look at this output. This is easy if you run it from a terminal
window. Otherwise you can probably have a look at /proc/<ID>/fd/[12] .
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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