it's been suggested that i post my problem here after having no joy in the expert list, i have copied my original post to expert below: > > i hjave been having problems with urpmi not adding/updating sources so i > > uninstalled urpmi and gurpmi and rpmdrake, deleted /var/lib/urpmi and > > /var/cache/urpmi and /etc/urpmi and reinstalled urpmi, gurpmi and > > rpmdrake and ran - as root- : > > # urpmi.addmedia localcooker file://mandrake/cooker/ > > > > the result of which was as follows: > > ---snip----- > > /mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/ziptool-1.3-6mdk.i586.rpm > > /mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/zsnes-1.337-3mdk.i586.rpm > > /mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/zssh-1.5a-1mdk.i586.rpm > > choosing compression method with "gzip -4" for archive > > /var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.localcooker.cz > > real archive size of /var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.localcooker.cz is > > 19880728 > > reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.localcooker.cz] > > keeping only files referenced in provides > > reading hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.localcooker.cz] > > built hdlist synthesis file for medium "localcooker" > > found 3424 headers in cache > > removing 3424 obsolete headers in cache > > write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] > > [root@mycroft RPMS]# > > > > as you can see the 'removing obsolete headers' means that urpmi has > > 'forgotten about all the rpms it has just added to its list as the > > following command shows: > > [root@mycroft RPMS]# urpmi zssh > > no package named zssh > > [root@mycroft RPMS]# > > > > can someone please help me sort this out as urpmi and rpmdrake are > > currently unusable for me
the version of urpmi i have is urpmi-3.1-4mdk; from another post in expert: > hi charles, > i am running cooker with 2.4.16 -11, i did what you described (though i > wasn't having exactly the same problem) no joy, urpmi still goes through > all > of the rpms specified in the command line and at the end it says: > found 3424 headers in cache > removing 3424 obsolete headers in cache > > and leaves me with an 'empty source' > > is it possible that the functioning of urpmi has changed? adding a source > on > the net requires specifying a hdlist but locally i like to miss out this so > that the source includes all the rpms in cooker i.e.: > # urpmi.addmedia localcooker file://mandrake/cooker/ > with no mention of a hdlist, is this still meant to work? because i cannot > get it to, any help would be appreciated bascule
