Le Mardi 12 Mars 2002 17:52, vous avez �crit :
> > 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://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/co
>o ker/ppc/Mandrake/base/ with hdlist1.cz

Not exactly the command is:
urpmi.addmedia cooker ftp://...

'cooker' is the name you choose for this source, you can have multiple 
sources. 

>
> Does this look right?  When I run it, I get some errors such as 'No such
> file 'descriptions''. And after the media is added, when I try to do 'urpmi
> evolution' it seems to try and download the dependencies, but in fact
> states that the files do not exist on the server. Does the problem perhaps
> lie in distro.ibiblio.org, or did I set up my media incorrectly?
>
> Peter

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