Justin Grote wrote:
> LW> In the four years or so I've been a newbie, I haven't been this
> LW> frustrated. What's really a pain is that I don't really like oo but
> LW> I'm pretty hardheaded.
>
> LW> I have added every club mirror, made sure that they were enabled one
> LW> at a time, and did a rpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi -v --auto-select
> LW> --wget
>
> LW> All updates were installed except oo, which was listed. I went
> LW> through the same process with each mirror, one at a time, with the
> LW> same result.
>
> LW> I don't expect to be spoon fed and in fact enjoy a meaningful
> LW> challenge, but can't stand stupidity from myself or anyone else.
>
> LW> I don't understand why urpmi can't be configured to recognize it's
> LW> own failure and move to the next mirror on my list and try there.
>
> LW> My two hour venture in futility could have been reduced to a simple,
> LW> "Oh well, looks like oo isn't available right now." and gone on to
> LW> something less exasperating.
>
> LW> Guarantee a newbi newbi would have just assumed mdk was a screwup
> LW> and gone on to another distro or back to the evil empire.
>
> LW> FWIW
>
> LW> Lee
>
>
> Yes, one of the things that annoys me about urpmi is that the hdlist.cz has to be
> present, whereas with YUM (yellow Dog Update Manager), you can use any directory
> full of RPMS and it will build the hdlist automatically, so the mirror doesn't have
> to maintain an hdlist. Not that big of a deal, but it sure would be nice to, for
> instance, add Florin's Mandrake Network Firewall cooker to urpmi, but I can't since
> it doesn't have an hdlist :)
>
> /rant off
>
>
I added a locale folder with rpms in it and used the graphical
addmedia to add it and it looks like it created a hdlist.cz
local_software file://home/mike/tmp/local_software {
hdlist: hdlist.local_software.cz
list: list.local_software
}
Just wanted to try it, and lists showed up in /var/lib/urpmi
synthesis.hdlist.local_software.cz
hdlist.local_software.cz
There is an option for urpmi.addmedia
-f Force generation of hdlist files.
Justin you might blank your replyto setting, I just sent a reply to
you instaed of list sorry about that.
Mike
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