Tom wrote:
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);
I tried doing an update without configuring any sources before hand. I
got an error and a list of update sources. The update source was not a
cooker source. It defaulted to a "regular" update source.
I don't think I want to use a cooker system so I think I'll try using it
with the regular updates and not cooker. Hopefully I can survive until
2006 is released.
Are there any foreseeable problems with updating this way?
Eric Jackson
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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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