-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 22 November 2003 1:58 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 11:47:17 AM PST, you wrote: > > Yes. Put them all on one disk, ... > > I'm still a little confused (my natural state)... > > What exactly do you mean by "them all"? At the MDK ftp updates site, > there is a folder called "9.2". Inside that folder are three folders > (Base, RPMS, and SRPMS) and a few loose files (descriptions, ls-lR, > md5sums) [I'm not sure if that one file is "ls-lR", or "Is-IR" (or > something else?). Anyway...
The hdlist you need for urpmi is in the /base directory. md5sums is a security measure used by urpmi. Yes, urpmi is the command line tool, rpmdrake is the frontend that uses it. In oversimplified terms of course. > Are all the actual update files contained in "RPMS" and "SRPMS"? Unless you want to kill some time you don't really need the SRPMS directory at all Melissa. Those are the actual source files the packages are built from and while some distributions are built "optimized" using sources there isn't enough of a performance improvement for you to bother at the moment. Just /base /RPMS and the md5sums is fine. > > ... then define the disk as a urpmi source. Then you can go into the > > software installer and it will tell you what needs to be updated. To > > define them as a source, go into the software sources manager and > > add the disk or directory. > > To lessen my own confusion a bit, I did the following: > > I created three new directories (by the way...where's the most logical > place to put such directories?), and copied/pasted the contents of their > corresponding folders from the CD-R: What's logic have to do with it? <g> You have what you need, but "mirror" what you saw on the server. Don't move files to directories they weren't originally in. I would put all three into an updates directory though. > 1) /MDKUpdateRPMS > 2) /MDKUpdateSRPMS > 3) /MDKUpdateBase (I also put the three loose files in here) See above, you didn't really need the SRPMS directory but it doesn't hurt anything. > 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"? Yes. Or do it from a konsole as super user: urpmi.addmedia updates /home/melissa/MDKUpdateRPMS with ../MDKUpdateBase/hdlist.cz all on one line, single spaced where spaces are needed. You could just copy and paste that line above into the super user konsole and hit enter. > >> 2) If I do have all the files on one CD-R, what is the best way to > >> install what's needed and/or wanted? > > > > Put them all in one directory available from Linux. > > Again...where's the most logical place to put such a directory? For > the moment, I've placed them under /home/melissa/... Good enough but read what I posted above. To make life easier for yourself put all three and any "loose" files into an updates directory. > > The command is urpmi --auto-select --update > > > > This will install all the security fixes and updates based on the > > packages you already have installed, in other words, updating them > > to the latest versions. > > Oops! Here's what I get from that command: > > "Everything is already installed" urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select <enter> After you teach urpmi where to look for updates of course. That's the stuff above. > What am I doing wrong here? > > Thanks! You're getting there. <g> Have fun! Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 14:08:19 up 2 days, 4:47, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.98, 0.82 I didn't get sophisticated -- I just got tired. But maybe that's what sophisticated is -- being tired. -- Rita Gain -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/v9P3G11CaRuZZSIRAqNAAJ9xStX1in42UmovNNZjNotCIWImuwCgphup E/uG+k6U8DJff8zaazAlWEA= =xee6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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