eric jackson wrote:
Hi,
I just installed the new club release of 2005 LE with KDE 3.4
I realized as I installed it that it's called a cooker version. My
question is how do I update it? Should I use cooker sources or the
regular 2005 LE sources?
Eric Jackson
I suspected it was just a cooker snapshot. If so then KDE was
compiled with the new gcc 4. You should be usin kernel 2.6.11-10mdk
also. There will most likely be another snapshot before 2006.0 is
released. So wait for that, or if you want to keep the system
current (broadband is almost a must) with 2006.0 then (I posted this
to expert recently);
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For sources, http://cookermirrors.skycon.net/ to see a current
list. Add at least two for both main and contrib. If one fails or
has missing files, urpmi will go to the alternate to get them. And
if you use PLF, don't forget to change those sources too. One each
for PLF free and non-free, 3 mirrors for cooker main & contrib
should do nicely. Use the synthesis files or updating will be
painfuly slow even with fast broadband. So if you use easy urpmi,
change the hdlist.cz to synthesis.hdlist.cz Use SMM to manage your
sources alias smm='edit-urpm-sources.pl' Then,
alias cook='urpmi.update -caf && urpmi --auto-select -v --keep'
--keep is an important addition, particularly if files an there
dependencies show up at different times (as often happens on cooker,
particularly on weekends or when Warly's gone walking on holiday in
southern Europe).
BUT, beforehand you should add these lines to the beginning of
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg {brackets included}
{
downloader: wget
verify-rpm: 0
}
..and put stuff in skip.list you don't want to auto update, like
kernel-source. When you run your alias you'll see a new kernel is
available, but you don't neccessarily havt'a get it. If you choose
to, a simple 'urpmi kernel-source-2.6' will overide the skip.list.
Same goes for many PLF packages you want to keep PLF, rather than
update them to newer mdk packages. I only do it for mplayer and
mencoder. When PLF versions catch up with cooker, you can then
urpmi them as urpmi will auto prefer the PLF updates.
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