> > Today's sync off ftp.sunet.se happily removed everything in RPMS2 and > replaced directory with link to ../contribs/RPMS2 > > Many many thanks. >
Calming down and thinking about it. Assuming I have a cooker mirror. I usually made two disks, one of them with RPMS + everything except RPMS2 another one with RPMS2 only. When I add it to urpmi I define the second (contribs) source as removable_...//.../RPMS2 with ../base/hdlist2.cz (and this is how installer puts it). This works for as long as there is a directory RPMS2 on the first media. Well, you always can install, but you cannot update because with RPMS2 relative path cannot be resolved. But now I have RPMS2 -> ../../../contribs/... This does not exist (at least on install media) and I cannot update installation source. Bingo! So, the actual request is to support absolute URL for hdlists. In this way you could define "contribs with removable_cdrom_0://Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz" and do not worry if RPMS2 or whatever exist on first CD. You could also put ftp://.../Mandrake/RPMS with file://path/to/hdlist.cz and update hdlist.cz with rsync which is more effective anyway. I looked in the code and it is doable; it needs some abstraction layer (with interface something like get_file(URL,local_copy)) but urpmi may even benefit from this :-) -andrej
