Re: Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)

2002-03-14 Thread Olivier Thauvin
Le Mardi 12 Mars 2002 17:52, vous avez écrit : > > Is there any text-based way to automagically pull in new packages from > > the mirrors? > > I have somewhat answered my own question - I have found urpmi, and found > out about urpmi.addmedia to let me add a source. But I'm not exactly sure > what

Re: Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)

2002-03-14 Thread Olivier Thauvin
Le Mardi 12 Mars 2002 18:25, Peter R. Wood a écrit : > > Not exactly the command is: > > urpmi.addmedia cooker ftp://... > > > > 'cooker' is the name you choose for this source, you can have multiple > > sources. > > Well, I figured I could choose whatever I wanted for the name... does the > name

Re: Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)

2002-03-12 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:52:02AM -0500, Peter R. Wood (Lists) wrote: > > Is there any text-based way to automagically pull in new packages from the > > mirrors? > > I have somewhat answered my own question - I have found urpmi, and found out > about urpmi.addmedia to let me add a source. But I'

Re: Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)

2002-03-12 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
Ok, I have answered my own question again. Here is the command I used, this time building a successful media list: urpmi.addmedia --distrib ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/coo ker/ppc/Mandrake/ This automatically gets the hdlists, etc. Peter

Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)

2002-03-12 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
> Is there any text-based way to automagically pull in new packages from the > mirrors? I have somewhat answered my own question - I have found urpmi, and found out about urpmi.addmedia to let me add a source. But I'm not exactly sure what URL I need to put in. My guess is: urpmi.addmedia ftp://