* Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010430 14:02]:
> On Monday 30 April 2001 15:25, you wrote:
> > I think it might help you to read the man page for rpm: "man rpm", and see
> > the related files.
> >
> > If you're looking for things specific to rpmdrake, try "locate rpmdrake"
> > (assuming your database is up to date - update it with "updatedb").
> >
> > Most of those things you will need to run as root.
> >
> I use rpm everyday, I wanted to try rpmdrake (the graphic utility), it
> started prety well and asked me for an on-line resource, I selected one, and
> then it didn't start anymore, it hangs, no more window refresh. I searched
> for rpmdrake config files with locate, but I couldn't find anything, i would
> like to remove that on-line resource and just leave the 2 cd-roms, at least,
> by now, how can I do it ?
RPMdrake is pretty unrobust. If it can't get some resources succesfully
it gives up. To further complicate matters, it has no documentation,
nor does the underlying binary which hooks into urpmi.
The actual package lists etc. are stored in the configuration of urpmi
which is vaguely documented. Its main configuration file is
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg, and the current package lists per resource are
floating in /var/lib/urpmi. I had to zero some of these files to make
rpmdrake launch again. I have no idea how robust rpmdrake is at
reconstructing data however, so you might want to move files and not
delete them.
Joshua Rodman
