Andrei Raevsky wrote:
../base/hdlistx.cz is the relative path from the RPMS directory to the hdlist, which contains the index/information about all the rpms. You are giving the path, first, to the relevant RPMS directory, e.g.
Hi,
I initially installed Mdk 9.0 from the three CDs of the Mandrake Download
Edition. A friend has now given me the full Mdk. 9.0 Power Pack with 7 CDs.
I would like to now add to my source manager (in the Mandrake Control
Center) the extra CDs, in particular the two commercial applications CDs and
the supplementary application CD. When I launch the source manager I have
the option to add a source (in this case my CDs). There is only one item
which puzzles me: what is the 'relative path to systhesis/hdlist:' and why
does the documentation suggest that this path be '../base/hdlist2.cz' ?
What should I put into the 'relative path' box to have the full 7 CDs as
source?
Thanks,
Andrei
/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS4
then, from there, you give the path to the hdlist4.cz
If you browze the cd's, I think you will see all the hdlists are on CD1. I don't know where the 'official' name comes from, perhaps the hdlist, so I think, with CD1, containing all the hdlists, in the reader, you can give your own name for each additional disk, one-by-one, the proper path to the pertinent RPMSx directory, were that disk in your CD reader, and the relative path as if the hdlist were on the same CD. There is also a synthesis.hdlist that contains far less information and, being smaller, is more convenient for download syncing of mirrored archives on slow connections but does not provide changelog, filelists, perhaps other information.
There is a 9.0 errata that *might* work for you. It entailed issuing
urpmi.update 8
with CD1 in the drive. Have not tried that.
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