What I have found is that if I use the club setup, copy it to a root terminal,
it seems to setup OK but if I go to the gui media setup it is not there. Run
rebuild etc to no avail.
Roly
On Sunday 28 November 2004 09:57 am, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> On Sunday 28 November 2004 9:38 am, Jack wrote:
> > For some strange reason, I can no longer update my media with easyurpmi.
> >
> > It seems to take when I run the necessary commands from root, even
> > giving me messages that "contrib" has been added to media, etc. But
> > when I go to the media manager, they (plf, etc.) don't show up, and I've
> > done a random sampling of the programs offered for install, and they all
> > only originate from the original cd's.
> >
> > I've done this many times before. I recently re-installed, and cannot
> > understand why it won't do it now...
>
> Let me get this right, you use Easy Urpmi to create your sources, but when
> you open the Media Manager GUI, the sources are not updated? Interesting.
>
> Very Interesting. Its not Easy Urpmi, its something about either the Media
> Manager, /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg, or how you are handling the update of
> sources.
>
> cat /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg to see if the sources are updated. This should
> also be the file that the Media Manager reads sources from. It should be rw
> enabled for root but r only for every one else. Or maybe it is gook in cat.
> In that case, I would, in a root window, delete urpmi.cfg. I bet it will be
> remade the next time urpmi.update is run.
>
> Just a thought, you are updating your sources in a root window? Its a job
> for root, but I don't think anyone else can do it.
>
> Rob
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