On Sunday 19 January 2003 11:17 am, Sascha Noyes wrote: > On Sunday 19 January 2003 12:43 pm, Charlie wrote: > <snip> > > > Questions: how do I sync a directory to cooker and use that instead of > > software manager from a mirror? If I get the latest update packages maybe > > everything will start to work. In the alternative how would I force the > > beta2 DHCP to start resolving names from my ISP's servers on this _stand > > alone_ machine? beta2 solved some of the glitches in beta1 but broke the > > networking for me. Doing an upgrade install of beta2 over what I have > > right now won't work. I tried it. > > First of all, you are reporting the bugs you find to bugzilla > (https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/) aren't you?
As soon as I figure out what the devil they are I will. <g> If I don't actually identify what's broken/glitchy/needs to be fixed for compatibility in my hardware environment it won't help the developers anyway. Bug reports without information are a waste of bandwidth and drive space; aren't they? At least bugs that aren't already reported; those I'll just try to vote for if they're affecting my system too. Yeah, I do check bugzilla. > > For syncing the cooker tree to my local harddrive i use the following > command: > > rsync -avrt --progress --delete ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 > /home/lusr/burn/cooker/ Extreme thanks Sasha! So in /home I need a /lusr directory (Short for linux user? Or what sysadmins and developers seem to think of end users like me?) a burn directory (seems obvious; mkcd blah blah blah etc) and the /cooker directory that I'm syncing? No trouble. /home (a "common" partition) now has 18.6 GB to play in and I'm nowhere near the download bandwidth cap from my ISP. Am I adding a user called "lusr" (whatever) or just making directories in my /home or /home/nanook? Either is fine, I just don't want to screw the pooch here. BTW I have one empty 30 GB (Reiser FS formatted) partition called /store available on hdb. Would that be more appropriate? Since I'm going to mirror the entirety of cooker it may become useful for someone down the line. > > For the contrib RPMs use the following command: > > rsync -avrt --progress --delete ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/ > /home/lusr/burn/contrib/i586/ > > To add this repository to your urpmi list: > > urpmi.addmedia cooker /home/lusr/burn/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with > ../base/hdlist.cz > And a similar command for the contrib RPMS if you download those as well. The easy part but thanks. I would probably have forgotten how to do it at first. Kind of pointless if I don't sync for contribs though, isn't it? That's where the "toys" are. :-) > > Sascha Noyes > -- > Please encrypt all correspondence. (not to a mailing list I won't) > PGP key available from: > http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc So (last stupid gnubie question I hope) I can add the sync to cron and have it done automagically. How please? I'm off to Google for an answer for this one. Thank you again. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org "Stan and I thought that this experiment was so stupid, we decided to finance it ourselves." -- Martin Fleischmann, co-discoverer of room-temperature fusion (?)
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