On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Olof Bjarnason wrote:

> #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").

Yes, you *should* be able to do it from the sources manager, but it seems 
there is a bug if you do it that way. I got an error like this in the list 
file for the source I added via the source manager in 9.1:

==> use RPM_contained_file to view a file in the RPM
error: open of 
//home/bgmilne/rpm/mdk/RPMS.mdk9.1/./i586/samba3-client-3.0-1.0.20030429mdk.i586.rpm 
failed: No such file or directory
================================= Content 
======================================
argument is not an RPM package
cpio: premature end of archive


> Or maybe
> I didn't? In short: is there a GUI for urpmi?
> 

Yes, but it seems to not work correctly. If I do the 
urpmi.addmedia <name> file://path/to/rpm/collection

Then it does work.


> Sorry for this have-become user-assistance thread. From the beginning,
> I took it for a bug :)


I think it may be ... can you check if you also get the error messages in 
the list file for your source in /var/lib/urpmi/ using the gui?

Can someone test on cooker (otherwise I will tomorrow).

Regards,
Buchan

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