On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:34:19AM +0100, François Pons wrote:
> 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.
>
Rpmdrake (will) recognize the old format as well, since it uses urpm.pm
to read the config. However, rpmdrake will always write with the new format.
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