Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Van Holland wrote:
>
> > I just spent some time on this so I though I would chime in. Rpmdrake is
> > a front end to urpmi. Urpmi will look at the hdlist either locally or on
> > a mirror. Urpmi keeps it's config file in /etc/urpmi and its database in
> > /var/lib/urpmi. I already had the files created, since I did an ftp
> > installation, but still had a problem. Rpmdrake would load, but it
> > didn't show anything. I ended up running two scripts, urpmi.removemedia
> > and urpmi.addmedia to redo the files. (The system has man pages on both
> > scripts.) After doing that, rpmdrake was able to talk to the ftp mirror.
> >
>
> Thank you, really helpful!
>
> may be, it is already known, but manpages for urpmi* show the wrong format
> for urpmi.cfg, single line "name url" instead of multiline, bracketed
You are right, man page have not been updated but old format of urpmi.cfg is
still recognized by urpmi, maybe not by rpmdrake. Doing a urpmi.update -a
automatically rewrite urpmi.cfg.
> entries. I've updated to the latest urpmi and rpmdrake did not work; first
> after urpmi.update it started to do something.
>
> Probably, urpmi update could check and convert old format?
urpmi.update -a do it.
>
> -andrej
François.
