Re: What's up with Helix update?

[Bryan Whitehead <driver rccacm org>]

I discovered the same problem myself. I find mirroring the helix distro
locally and then doing a "rpm --freshen -vh *rpm" works a allot better
than the stupid broken update utility. :P

here is the command I use to mirror helix for Mandrake:
mirrordir -v --no-chown --exclude-glob
"*src.rpm*" ftp://ftp.helixcode.com/distributions/Mandrake-7/
~/helix



On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Alan M. Evans wrote:

> I've been using Helix on an essentially clean RedHat 6.2 system for a
> little more than a couple of months. This morning, the updater told me
> that a new sawfish was available. "Finally!" I said to myself as I told
> the updater to do the upgrade. Afterword, I happened to check...
> 
> $ rpm -qa | grep sawfish
> sawfish-themes-0.2-0_helix_1
> sawfish-0.30.3-0_helix_7
> sawfish-themer-0.30.3-0_helix_7
> $
> 
> Odd. This prompted me to check ftp.helixcode.com and in the directory
> /pub/helix/distributions/RedHat-6 I found...
> 
> sawfish-0.33-0_helix_1.i386.rpm
> sawfish-themer-0.33-0_helix_1.i386.rpm
> sawfish-themes-0.2-0_helix_1.i386.rpm
> 
> Is there some benevolent reason that the Helix Update software has
> chosen not to give this to me? The same seems to be true of lib-rep and
> some other packages.
> 
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