On Wed 12 Mar 2003 05:55, Guillaume Cottenceau posted as excerpted below: > The sources are taken in order. In 9.2 the sources editor will > have the feature of graphically changing order. Now, you may do > so by changing order of `/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg'.
Cool! I thought it looked to go in order, at one point, but didn't quite know WHAT order, or where to look to change it. Now I do. > > It doesn't LOOK like it's doing this now, but maybe it does.. > > If several sources are available for an item, according to the latest > > hdlst.cz, and one fails, try the others. > > I think this is available (or soon will be) with urpmi. I haven't had any failure of this of late. I expect it's fixed. > But this is gonna be hard for rpmdrake since the > installer/downloader is grpmi, which doesn't know anything about > dependencies (it only installs/downloads). > > > IOW, it would do the same thing that urpmi already does to figure out > > which of several versions is the newest, but if the hdlist.cz file was > > outdated, it would automatically try the next logical release stepping > > instead > > This wouldn't be safe since a new release may have different > dependencies. Good point. -- Duncan "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
