MandrakeSoft has released an urpmi update for Mandrake Linux 8.1/8.2

Updated urpmi and mdkonline packages are available for 8.1 and 8.2. These updates bump up the version of urpmi and mdkonline to those found in Mandrake Linux 9.0, which offer more features and better support for updating packages via urpmi and Mandrake Online.

Updated urpmi packages for 9.0 fix a bug where urpmi would not follow symlinks when downloading files; urpmi would download the symlink instead of the file it pointed to.

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