On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 1:13 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 23:53, Derek Jennings wrote: > > <snip> > > > The advantage is that I do not have to explain how to put the CD > > sources back again ;-) > > </snip> > > Which brings up a rather naive question : > > Let's say a newbie leaves his original CD sources "as is" and then > decides to add some more, following your excellent advice, Derek. > Then, being on the "easy urpmi"- site, he/she -accidentally defines > "main" once again, this time from some mirror on the net. Now, our > newbie has two sources for "main". > > What happens ? - Will urpmi get confused ? - Or just spit out a > message like : "you idiot, why bother me with two identical > sources, waisting my time ? - Do you want to shuffle CD's or watch > the blinkenlights on your modem ?" > > Kaj Haulrich.
I don't know. Want to try it and tell us? At a guess I would say it would prefer the CD sources. Of course your question is actually rhetorical since the CDs and 'main' are not actually identical. 'Main' contains the kernel-source package which is not on the CDs. (Although it is superceded by the one in 'updates' ) derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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