On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 9:10 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 07:50 pm, Charles A Edwards > > wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:35:51 +0000 > > > > Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Let us - very politely - ask the proponents of the new > > > rpmdrake/urpmi/gurpmi how they manage to get rid of > > > unusable/disappeared/outdated sources ? > > > > If you have added no personal sources other than for > > updates then your sources should be labeled, > > Installation CD1, Installation CD2 etc and for updates > > it should be labeled update_source. > > > > If you are unsure as to what sources you have run > > # urpmi.removemedia > > It will give you and error that you defined no media to > > remove And give you a listing of all your current > > sources. > > > > You then simply enter > > # urpmi.removemedia <label> > > as example # urpmi.removemedia update_source > > > > If there is a config or other problem on your system > > that causes this not to work. > > A guaranteed way to remove All your sources is to > > # rpm -e --nodeps urpmi gurpmi > > Then manually re-install the same from your CDs or a 9.0 > > mirror and manually recreate your sources. > > > > > > Charles > > Thanks, Charles. Actually I tried all of the above, but > still got some errors from my script. Must be a bad > script. Nevertheless, Patrick got his problem solved > despite my attempt to help. > > Now, on a lighter note : I followed Tom's advice and > downloaded *urpmi.setup* from Cooker and installed it on > my 9.0 box. - What a wonderful gadget ! Removing, > changing and re-installing sources is now a piece of cake. > So do you think we can expect to see this in 9.1?
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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