Paul R Streitman wrote:
> I have been following this discussion, and I must say that I am confused!
> MandrakeUpdate worked very well for me (until whatever happened that caused
> it to crash every time), but I have yet to get rpmdrake/urpmi working at
> all. When I start rpmdrake, it never gives me a list of RPMs, either
> currently installed or in my local mirror of the cooker. 'Edit Media' does
> not seem to work at all, as it never lets me point to my mirror!
If you are under the misaprehension that MandrakeUpdate works OK, you should try using
it to update from Mandrake 7.2 to the current rev of cooker.
>
> I gather that the key to getting this working is to set up urpmi's
> configuration file to point to my local copy of the cooker. However, it
> certainly is not obvious how one does that and every attempt that I have
> made based on mailing list comments has failed. So -- if I have created a
> mirror of cooker in /e/cooker how do I tell the configuration file to use
> it?
An explanation? God forfend! Actually, it wasn't hard once I pieced together bits of
several posts on the list and then read all the See Also manpages suggested by those
manpages.
urpmi.addmedia MyMirror file://usr/local/mymirror
When you are ready to update your RPMS, after you've freshened your mirror run:
urpmi.update MyMirror
urpmi --auto-select
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
> z/OS BCP Development
> Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
