### Adam Williamson: "Re: [Cooker] Bug in Mandrake package install system?"... #On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:47, Thomas Backlund wrote: #> Viestiss� Torstai 17. Hein�kuuta 2003 22:21, Andi Payn kirjoitti: #> > On Thursday 17 July 2003 11:59, Olof Bjarnason wrote: #> > > Thanks for your advice, although I have some more questions :) #> > > #> > > #> Is this a bug? #> > > #No. #> > > #> > > If not a bug - what is it? Should the combination of actions #> > > which I took not lead to installation of a "custom" rpm? #> > > This implies there are 'special' packages, or Mandrake-packages, in #> > > which case at least I would favor a notification upon clicking on #> > > such a "foreign" package. For example, it would be helpful if #> > > Mandrake tells me "Warning: Non-Mandrake package. Install #> > > manually with urpmi" when I click on my 'abc.rpm'. #> > #> > The urpmi tools are not about packages, but about urpm sources, which are #> > repositories of packages. #> > #> > So, the short answer is: You must build a custom urpm source containing #> > your custom packages before you can use urpmi to install those packages. #> > Just copying the rpm's into a directory is not enough. #> > #> #> Not entirely correct... #> #> If you copy a rpm (or many rpms...) to an empty directory, #> and issue ' urpmi * ' in that directory, urpmi will try to install all #> packages in that directory, trying to resolve the dependencies by using the #> packages in that directory and the packages known to it through it's defined #> sources... #> #> Of course if urpmi still can't resolve the dependencies for some of the #> packages, it won't install those... # #Andi meant to write "You must build a custom urpm source containing your #custom packages before you can use rpmdrake to install those packages." Which I think I did with the program down-right in the package management window of MandrakeControlCentral (I don't know the apps. name in english - might be something like "Manage sources"). Or maybe I didn't? In short: is there a GUI for urpmi?
Sorry for this have-become user-assistance thread. From the beginning, I took it for a bug :) Anyway, thanks for you help, and I will try out your suggestions.. /Olof
