On Saturday 22 November 2003 04:03 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Me, > > On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 12:58:34 PM PST, I wrote: > > Then, I added each of those new directories to the list of places to > > look for updated files. Here's how I added the new directories: > > > > "K" menu, then to "Configuration/Packaging/Software Media Manager". > > Was that the right place to deal with that to make the files > > available to "urpmi"? > > Oh! Also... > > In the where I'm defining the path to the directories, there's an > option I don't understand: > > [ ] "relative path to synthesis/hdlist" > > What does this mean? I did notice that if I right-click on one of > "media sources" in the list, there's a choice to "regenerate hdlist" > (something like that), but I don't know what this means. > There is a file on the update mirrors in the base directory called hdlist.cz, and it contains information about the RPMS in the directory. if the file is missing, the sources manager can regenerate it if it missing, but if you are using a source across the internet, that can take a long time.
Relative path means the path to the hdlist file relative to the directory the RPMs are in, so if the hdlist file is in the directory with the RPMs, the relative path is ./ (current directory) but if the hdlist file is in the base directory, for the updates the relative path would be ../base BTW, the . always refers to the current directory and the .. always refers to the parent directory. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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