Rolf Pedersen wrote:
Andrei Raevsky wrote:
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
../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.
/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.
Just remembered: the Power Pack CD3 contains more rpms than the
download edition, IIANM. You will at least need to do an update source
with the power pack cd1 loaded and CD3 selected.
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