On Monday 28 May 2001 09:18, you wrote:
> There appear to be some problems with Software Manager under 8.0.
>
> Logged in as root:
>
> * When changing sources (adding or deleting), and re-opening the 'sources'
> dialog, none of the changes 'took'. No matter how many times it is being
> re-entered, the changes never take hold.
>
> * I should be able to double-click on any source, and have the window come
> up that allows me to edit the source, instead of having to delete and
> create new if I want to make changes (this is a feature request).
>
> * When doing an 'install' from a remote location (doing upgrades), only the
> first installation appears to work. Subsequent ones *say* they installed
> correctly, but haven't done anything (it claims it downloaded and installed
> a 4 megs file in 2 seconds) - sometimes it doesn't even provide the
> download feedback, but just claims the installation went fine.
>
> All of this is on an entirely freshly installed system, using ReiserFS,
> from a bought copy of Mandrake 8.0 standard edition - selecting pretty much
> everything for the installation. Doing a regular (non-expert) installation.
>
> Any idea how to fix this?
>
> Harry
I have the same problem.
I had to manually edit /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg and add my new source, something
like:
Updates file://mnt/updates/ {
hdlist: hdlist.Updates.cz
list: list.Updates
}
/mnt/updates is an nfs mount point for my 8.0 updates RPMS.
Dave
