On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Olof Bjarnason wrote: > Is this a bug? > > I wanted to install a package, call it > abc.rpm, on my Mandrake system. I downloaded it, > and put it in my Download directory, which is > one of the additional Mandrake package source > directories besides the three installation > CDs.
Did you place it in the same directory as the RPMS from the distribution? > So far fine - I also updated the Download > directory with the "sources manager" or what > it is called in english (I use swedish as system > language) and double-checked that the checkbox > "Active" was checked. But here is the glitsch: > trying to find the package by searching on > a sub-string of its name, say bc, didn't > bring up the freshly downloaded rpm! > > Am I or Mandrake doing something wrong? You cannot place other packages in a urpmi source, and expect it to work without updating the hdlists (which you should not really do). Instead, you should make a seperate directory (away from the Mandrake RPMS), and add that to rpmdrake as a source. In this case, you don't give an hdlist, so urpmi will create one for you (in /var/lib/urpmi) and update it when you update the source. You could also use the genhdlist command to generate an hdlist, if you are serving the RPMs to multiple machines. But you don't want to mix your own RPMs with the ones from the distro, and you don't want to include them in your own source, as you will waste a lot of time generating an hdlist for packages you already have an hdlist for ... In short, this is not a bug ... but user assistance, so belongs on another list. Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
