Felix Miata wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Lots of info, yet no answer. So are you new or not? ;-)
Define new.
Please re-read my previous email. It's obvious that you are not new to
Linux or to Mandrake. :-)
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Felix Miata wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Try this. I don't know if it will work or not. I don't want to screw
up my configuration by testing it. I find it is easier to use the
command line to add sources, but you're not me...so...here goes:
-KDE Menu =Configuration = Packaging =
Felix Miata wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Surely someone must know. Why does the X tool even exist if it can only
get the job done for the person who wrote it, if even then? I don't mind
using cli at all, but my goal was to figure out the X tool. I've gotten
nowhere
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
What about the checkbox for relative path to hdlists? I checked that,
but no matter what I entered in the box, I'd always get an error message
after it rattled the disk a while, either about not finding the hdlist
file it wanted, or trouble
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September 9, 2003 01:09 am, Felix Miata wrote:
whack
I rsync'd
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586
/
Then put ../base/hdlist.cz as the path for the hdlist.
Did that. Didn't work. Also unsuccessfully tried
Charlie M. wrote:
The command I used to first rsync with the same mirror; lifted from
/root/.bash_history:
rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude alpha/ --exclude amd64/
- --exclude ia64/ --exclude others/ --exclude SRPMS --exclude jpackage
- --exclude ppc/ --exclude unsupported/
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September 9, 2003 01:28 am, Felix Miata wrote:
Charlie M. wrote:
The command I used to first rsync with the same mirror; lifted from
/root/.bash_history:
rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude alpha/ --exclude amd64/
- --exclude ia64/
Felix Miata wrote:
James Sparenberg wrote:
use the urpmi.addmedia command to add a cooker mirror. Right now
(assuming you installed from CD) the only thing you have is the CD's in
your urpmi database. So if your favorite mirror is foo
My favorite mirror is my rsync:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
My favorite mirror is my rsync: /mnt/mandrake/cooker, updated about an
hour ago, after having updated prior to the original cooker install on
Friday, and again before running update from floppy boot on Saturday.
OK:
urpmi.addmedia
Felix Miata wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
My favorite mirror is my rsync: /mnt/mandrake/cooker, updated about an
hour ago, after having updated prior to the original cooker install on
Friday, and again before running update from floppy boot on Saturday.
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
My favorite mirror is my rsync: /mnt/mandrake/cooker, updated about an
hour ago, after having updated prior to the original cooker install on
Friday, and again before running update from floppy boot
Felix Miata wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
My favorite mirror is my rsync: /mnt/mandrake/cooker, updated about an
hour ago, after having updated prior to the original cooker install on
Friday, and
Brant Fitzsimmons kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Maanantai 8. Syyskuuta
2003 22:04):
[...]
I believe that when you run the Mandrake Update (to which I think you
were referring) it only uses the media labeled updates. If there are
no updates available on that specific source you will get
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
I did read that you were trying to update from within X. I think, more
specifically, you may have meant that you were trying to use the GUI
(Graphical User Interface) to do the update, since, of course, you can
run a command line from X.
I believe that when you
Thomas Backlund wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Maanantai 8. Syyskuuta
2003 22:04):
[...]
I believe that when you run the Mandrake Update (to which I think you
were referring) it only uses the media labeled updates. If there are
no updates available on that
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
I had actually suggested that earlier (everything except the kernel),
but I believe he wanted a way to do the actual update using a GUI.
I strongly suspect that when the OP did the urpmi.addmedia command to add
his Cooker source, he did not use the
Bill Mullen wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
I had actually suggested that earlier (everything except the kernel),
but I believe he wanted a way to do the actual update using a GUI.
I strongly suspect that when the OP did the urpmi.addmedia command to add
his Cooker
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 15:16, Felix Miata wrote:
Bill Mullen wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
I had actually suggested that earlier (everything except the kernel),
but I believe he wanted a way to do the actual update using a GUI.
I strongly suspect that when
Felix Miata wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
I did read that you were trying to update from within X. I think, more
specifically, you may have meant that you were trying to use the GUI
(Graphical User Interface) to do the update, since, of course, you can
run a command line from X.
I
Felix Miata wrote:
Bill Mullen wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
I had actually suggested that earlier (everything except the kernel),
but I believe he wanted a way to do the actual update using a GUI.
I strongly suspect that when the OP did the
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Felix Miata wrote:
Bill Mullen wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
I had actually suggested that earlier (everything except the kernel),
but I believe he wanted a way to do the actual update using a GUI.
I strongly suspect that when the OP
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Try this. I don't know if it will work or not. I don't want to screw
up my configuration by testing it. I find it is easier to use the
command line to add sources, but you're not me...so...here goes:
-KDE Menu =Configuration = Packaging = Software Sources
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Surely someone must know. Why does the X tool even exist if it can only
get the job done for the person who wrote it, if even then? I don't mind
using cli at all, but my goal was to figure out the X tool. I've gotten
nowhere with that.
This
Bill Mullen wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Felix Miata wrote:
I did what James Sparenberg wrote: urpmi.addmedia cooker-updates
file://mnt/mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz. See my
post of Sun, 07 Sep 2003 23:47:57 -0400.
Then I was correct. Try instead:
Thomas Backlund wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Maanantai 8. Syyskuuta
-As root run urpmi.update -a on the command line to make sure urpmi
knows what is available for updates
-Launch Install Software from the menu and select All packages, by
update
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September 8, 2003 10:44 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
The addmedia function seemed to work, but the GUI found nothing to
update. :-(
Hi Felix;
If I want to update my cooker install from one of the the hard drives I
add a source called update_source, in
James Sparenberg wrote:
use the urpmi.addmedia command to add a cooker mirror. Right now
(assuming you installed from CD) the only thing you have is the CD's in
your urpmi database. So if your favorite mirror is foo
My favorite mirror is my rsync: /mnt/mandrake/cooker, updated about an
On Friday 05 September 2003 08:15 pm, Greg Sarsons wrote:
I'm drawing a complete blank at figuring out how to update the rc1
installation with all the fixes that have taken place. What is the
command that I should use.
The Cooker HOWTO has this info.
Thank you Charlie;
This works like a charm on my system .:)
Ingo
Charlie M. wrote:
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tks ... had my line syntax off
You still have the address wrong. That mirror for 9.1 will do you no
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September 6, 2003 03:48 pm, Ingo Bauer wrote:
Thank you Charlie;
snip
You're very welcome.
This works like a charm on my system .:)
Ingo
My pleasure. Enjoy yourself. :-)
Regards;
Charlie
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On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 18:15:16 -0600
Greg Sarsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
I'm drawing a complete blank at figuring out how to update the rc1
installation with all the fixes that have taken place. What is the
command that I should use.
IIRC, urpmi --updates --auto-select
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HaywireMac
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 18:33, HaywireMac wrote:
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 18:15:16 -0600
Greg Sarsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
I'm drawing a complete blank at figuring out how to update the rc1
installation with all the fixes that have taken place. What is the
command that I should use.
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:11:58 -0600
Greg Sarsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
okay but I can't add a new location for it to check and update from
Tom Brinkman's the expert on this but I believe what you would want to
do is add cooker sources here:
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php
Have you
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:28, HaywireMac wrote:
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:11:58 -0600
Greg Sarsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
okay but I can't add a new location for it to check and update from
Tom Brinkman's the expert on this but I believe what you would want to
do is add cooker sources
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September 5, 2003 07:40 pm, Greg Sarsons wrote:
whack
tks ... had my line syntax off
You still have the address wrong. That mirror for 9.1 will do you no
good for cooker which is what you need to connect to for new packages
for the release
I did change that ...
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:55, Charlie M. wrote:
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September 5, 2003 07:40 pm, Greg Sarsons wrote:
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tks ... had my line syntax off
You still have the address wrong. That mirror for 9.1 will do you no
good for
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 18:11, Greg Sarsons wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 18:33, HaywireMac wrote:
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 18:15:16 -0600
Greg Sarsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
I'm drawing a complete blank at figuring out how to update the rc1
installation with all the fixes that have
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