On Wednesday 04 December 2002 16:02, stefmit wrote: > On Wednesday 04 December 2002 08:13 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > <snip> > > > Yes you don't have a contrib-source defined. > > What I would do on every mandrake-box (for desktop-use) is: > > > > adding an update-mirror for security updates. > > adding contrib-mirror to my sources > > adding a plf-mirror to my sources > > > > in case of a club-membership: > > adding a mirror for the commercial packages to my sources > > (flash/realplayer/nvidia-rpms and so on ..) > > adding a mirror for club-packages > > > > Your need for searching and compiling by yourself will decrease a lot. > > Dying in the abilities of urpmi is worth the try, its the main reason for > > mandrake in my case. > > > > Greets > > > > Steffen > > Great - thanks for the answer! Do you have any recommended (i.e. proven to > be reliable) sources for the above?
I use the spanish rediris server for contrib (contrib is mostly 2 dirs up on mandrake-mirrors, searching a fast for you and look if there is a hdlist.cz or synthesis.hdlist2.cz), plf gives you an interface for generating urpmi.addmedia lines. For security updates there was a post yesterday on club: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=827&forum=11 "... If you want that to be used as an update source you need to add the update switch,and a name. As in 'urpmi.addmedia --update Updates ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz' ..." > I got to change the update-mirror a > couple of times, due to unavailability of specific packages, so I was > wondering about the rest (contrib and plf). > > Thx, > Stef unavailable packages mostly appear if your hdlist is outdated. so you should update it. (for the above example : 'urpmi.update Updates') As I understood the next urpmi will even get better (just as I read the ML , I could be wrong !!): - supporting different mirrors for the same source - as I understood incremental updates of the hdlists.cz The hdlist.cz contains all informations of all packages in the source so can be quite big (some MB for contrib a lot lesser for Updates) The synthesis.hdlist.cz contains only the available packages (just arround 100-200 kB). For finding files in e.g. ftp-sources you need the hdlist.cz ( then you can make urpmf file.h and find the file , even if it is not on your harddisk or on some of your CDs) -- ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 89 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
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